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 When he was finally allowed to go out again, his Jewish school inside a Berlin synagogue had been burned down, the Jewish hat store opposite his home had been looted, and the windows of the stationery shop next door had been smashed. — ABC News, 8 Nov. 2026 The Kingdom of Benin, in what is now Nigeria, was looted of roughly 5,000 religious objects by the British in 1897. — News Desk, Artforum, 7 Nov. 2026 The Kingdom of Benin was looted of roughly 5,000 royal and religious objects in 1897 by British forces on a punitive expedition through what is now Nigeria. — Tessa Solomon, ARTnews.com, 5 Nov. 2026 Rioters looted stores and set fires to barricades in Frankfurt on Saturday as protests across Germany demanded lower living costs and better education. — Freddie Clayton, NBC news, 1 Nov. 2026 In Germany, nighttime riots injured more than 100 police officers and damaged or looted stores; in Lisbon, Portugal, police forcibly cleared a housing protest encampment. — Angela Charlton, Los Angeles Times, 1 Nov. 2026 On October 17th, a day of fierce confrontations between protesters and police, rioters burned public buildings and looted stores throughout the country. — Maurice Samuels, New Yorker, 29 Oct. 2026 More than 1,100 stores nationwide were looted, trashed or torched that day, while almost 1,000 suffered lighter damage, according to preliminary figures released by the French Chambers of Commerce and Industry. — Joelle Diderich, Footwear News, 28 Oct. 2026

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Military leaders on both sides have also plundered Sudan’s vast gold reserves, smuggling much of their takings out of the country.

— Mat Nashed, Christian Science Monitor, 28 Oct. 2026
Social media posts and merchant reports said luxury and beauty stores, including Sephora, Celine, Burberry and Louis Vuitton, were plundered.

— Arthur Zaczkiewicz, Footwear News, 19 Oct. 2026

Definition of plundered

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The Digest Lawmakers in Italy are examining a new bill to create a committee that will research provenance and facilitate the restitution of art and cultural items pillaged by Nazis and Italian police between 1933 and 1945.

— Devorah Lauter, ARTnews.com, 3 Nov. 2026
Shopkeepers who’ve found their livelihoods suddenly at stake wonder where the police were while groups looted and pillaged with impunity.

— Colette Davidson, Christian Science Monitor, 19 Oct. 2026

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The Chiefs were pushed back 5 yards and on the do-over, Malcolm Roach sacked Mahomes, who complained afterward that Moore's movement was so slight as to not merit a flag in that crucial situation.

— ABC News, ABC News, 10 Nov. 2026
Goff was sacked four times against Minnesota, and Miami continued to exploit the Lions' problems up front, particularly on the right side.

— CBS News, CBS News, 10 Nov. 2026

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Known as The Max, the facility was at the center of a bribery scheme that led to the conviction of the former mayor of neighboring McCook, whose office was raided the same day as Getty’s.

— Jake Sheridan, Chicago Tribune, 4 Nov. 2026
An amateur historian has stumbled upon a provocative clue to the enduring mystery of what became of a notorious pirate who raided a royal Indian treasure ship centuries ago, implicating a co-conspirator whose name is familiar to many New Yorkers.

— ABC News, ABC News, 2 Nov. 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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In June 1940, Nazis attacked the city of Orléans, burning an annex of its fine arts museum, known as the Musée Paul Fourché, which was subsequently almost entirely ransacked, likely by people on both sides of the conflict.

— Devorah Lauter, ARTnews.com, 3 Nov. 2026
Hours later, vandals smashed scores of windows around the corner and ransacked stores as neighbors watched in horror from apartments above.

— Michael Finnegan, Los Angeles Times, 28 Oct. 2026

Definition of ransacked

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