Nominal Forms
Infinitive: to loot
Participle: looted
Gerund: looting
Cognates
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Indicative
Present
| I | loot |
| you | loot |
| he;she;it | loots |
| we | loot |
| you | loot |
| they | loot |
Perfect
| I | have looted |
| you | have looted |
| he;she;it | has looted |
| we | have looted |
| you | have looted |
| they | have looted |
Past
| I | looted |
| you | looted |
| he;she;it | looted |
| we | looted |
| you | looted |
| they | looted |
Pluperfect
| I | had looted |
| you | had looted |
| he;she;it | had looted |
| we | had looted |
| you | had looted |
| they | had looted |
Future
| I | will loot |
| you | will loot |
| he;she;it | will loot |
| we | will loot |
| you | will loot |
| they | will loot |
Future Perfect
| I | will have looted |
| you | will have looted |
| he;she;it | will have looted |
| we | will have looted |
| you | will have looted |
| they | will have looted |
Subjunctive
Present
| I | loot |
| you | loot |
| he;she;it | loot |
| we | loot |
| you | loot |
| they | loot |
Perfect
| I | have looted |
| you | have looted |
| he;she;it | have looted |
| we | have looted |
| you | have looted |
| they | have looted |
Imperfect
| I | looted |
| you | looted |
| he;she;it | looted |
| we | looted |
| you | looted |
| they | looted |
Pluperfect
| I | had looted |
| you | had looted |
| he;she;it | had looted |
| we | had looted |
| you | had looted |
| they | had looted |
Conditional
Present
| I | would loot |
| you | would loot |
| he;she;it | would loot |
| we | would loot |
| you | would loot |
| they | would loot |
Perfect
| I | would have looted |
| you | would have looted |
| he;she;it | would have looted |
| we | would have looted |
| you | would have looted |
| they | would have looted |
Imperative
| you | loot |
| we | Let's loot |
| you | loot |
Verbs conjugated like 'loot'
abandon,
abduct,
abear,
aberr,
abject,
abord,
abort,
abound,
abraid,
abray,
abrook,
abscind,
abscond,
absist,
absorb,
abstain,
abstract,
accend,
accent,
accept, etc. (List truncated at 20 verbs)
Verbs similar to 'loot'
boot,
foot,
hoot,
loft,
loo,
loof,
look,
loom,
loop,
lot,
Synonyms & Antonyms
Synonyms
- to take something that does not belong to one
- abduct, abstract, appropriate, bag, bandit, bone, boost, borrow, burglarize, burgle, cheat, chore, convert, cop, cozen, crib, embezzle, filch, fleece, flog, gaffle, half-inch, heist, jack, kidnap, knock off, kype, kyper, liberate, lift, make off with, mill, misappropriate, moonlight requisition, nick, own, peculate, pickpocket, pilfer, pillage, pinch, pirate, plunder, poach, pocket, prig, purloin, raid, ransack, rape, reave, rip, rip off, rob, run off with, snag, snatch, steal, swindle, swipe, thieve, walk off with
- pillage
- rob, steal, plunder, rifle, ransack, despoil, sack, rape
Antonyms
- pillage
- replacement, restitution, reparation, restoration
Additional Information
Phrasal Verbs
Etymology
Borrowed from Hindi लूट (lūṭ, “booty”), either from Sanskrit लोप्त्र (loptra, “booty, stolen property”) or लुण्ट् (luṇṭ, “to rob, plunder”). The figurative meaning developed in American English in the 1920s, resulting in a generalized meaning by the 1950s.
Sample Sentences
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We looted the temple and the orphanage, which turned most of the NPCs against us.
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Gunganarian, the leader of the Chooars, continues his system of looting and murder [1833, The Asiatic Journal & Monthly Register for British India & Its Dependencies, page 66:]
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The plunderers are beaten whenever they are caught, but there is a good deal of burning and ‘looting’ as they call it. [1842 May 17, Lord Ellenborough, letter]
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On the 22nd ultimo the Boers made a raid into the District, and the result was that some 300 head of cattle and 600 sheep were looted. [1901 October 11, “District Reports”, in The Agricultural Journal and Mining Record, volume 4, number 16, page 483:]
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It's shameful to loot the bodies of the people who died today.
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He told me... that if I gave him less than to the master of the luggage-boat, he would... declare at Shēr-Gurry that I had ‘looted him!’ [1851 June 20, Mrs. Hervey, journal]