verb
- Steal goods; take as spoils.
- usage: "During the earthquake people looted the stores that were deserted by their owners"
adjective
- Wrongfully emptied or stripped of anything of value.
- usage: "the robbers left the looted train"; "people returned to the plundered village"
- Having been robbed and destroyed by force and violence.
- usage: "the raped countryside"
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