Thesaurus results for LOOTED

looted

verb

past tense of loot

as in plundered

to search through with the intent of committing robbery the bandits looted the archaeological dig before riding off into the night

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Recent Examples of looted Los Angeles County deputies say that an AutoZone in East Los Angeles was found looted early Saturday morning, near the spot where a street takeover had taken place. — Dean Fioresi, CBS News, 9 Aug. 2026 In addition to missile targeting, Russia has also looted thousands of Ukrainian cultural objects since the beginning of the war. — News Desk, Artforum, 7 Aug. 2026 Towns on the region’s fertile lowlands, once inhabited by Azerbaijani farmers and traders, were abandoned, then they were looted, landmined and turned into military buffer zones. — Literary Hub, 30 July 2026 The sculptures were among 34 Southeast Asian antiquities voluntarily relinquished by the collector in 2021 after investigators determined they had been looted. — ABC News, 23 July 2026 Weapons and gear will be looted throughout the run, but cannot be extracted. — Paul Tassi, Forbes.com, 21 July 2026 Its main office in Caracas was looted by regime supporters while hundreds of party activists were jailed or fled the country. — John Otis, NPR, 16 July 2026 Gran Grif operates in the country’s heartland, where dozens of houses were looted and burned and during a predawn assault in March in the town of Jean-Denis in the Lower Artibonite region. — Jacqueline Charles, Miami Herald, 13 July 2026 His collection was soon looted by the Nazis, with Hermann Göring taking several of them. — Maximilíano Durón, ARTnews.com, 13 July 2026

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As long as the contents of a container have not been plundered outright, they can even be delivered to the recipient after an accident, albeit with some delay.

— Alexander Klose, Scientific American, 24 July 2026
The Stuttgart striker plundered two second-half goals, including a stoppage-time winner, to earn his side a place in the last 32.

— Jacob Whitehead, New York Times, 20 June 2026

Definition of plundered

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But Nolan also throws a meditative new wrinkle into the story, as Odysseus comes to grips with his role in the Trojan War, leading the charge as his men raped, murdered and pillaged in his name.

— Patrick Ryan, USA Today, 18 July 2026
For decades, tomb raiders have pillaged sites across the country, selling them on the black market.

— Barbie Latza Nadeau, CNN Money, 19 June 2026

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Members of the Montreal City Police Department found the weapon, a Glock 26, on August 30, 2024, when officers raided a home in relation to a kidnapping investigation, court records show.

— Mark Morales, CNN Money, 9 Aug. 2026
This has been an issue discussed by many across the ACC and Big 12 in previous weeks, wondering aloud what this would prevent in terms of being raided by the others, most notably the SEC.

— Trey Wallace OutKick, FOXNews.com, 8 Aug. 2026

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One looks to the story of the Haitian World Cup team, appearing in the tournament for the first time in fifty years, which has gathered expatriate players from the Haitian diaspora to play for that beautiful and utterly despoiled country, where many of them have never lived.

— Adam Gopnik, New Yorker, 21 June 2026
In the 21st century, oil extraction has become a serious threat to Ecuadoran Amazonia, with large swaths of forest, often located in Indigenous territories, despoiled by the release of wastewater from the wells.

— Stanley Stewart, Travel + Leisure, 10 Jan. 2026

Definition of despoiled

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