[1] : The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48

loot \loot\, v. t.  i. imp.  p. p. looted; p. pr.  vb. n.
   looting.
   to plunder; to carry off as plunder or a prize lawfully
   obtained by war.
   1913 webster

         looting parties . . . ransacking the houses. --l.
                                                  oliphant.
   1913 webster
see also:
looted looting 

[2] : WordNet (r) 2.0

looting
     n : plundering during riots or in wartime syn: robbery
see also:
robbery 

[3] : Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0

59 moby thesaurus words for "looting":
   assault, attack, banditry, battering, brigandage, brigandism,
   butchery, depredation, despoiling, despoilment, despoliation,
   direption, disorderliness, foraging, foray, forcible seizure,
   freebooting, killing, laying waste, marauding, massacre,
   obstreperousness, onslaught, pillage, pillaging, plunder,
   plundering, plunderous, predacious, predacity, predatory, raid,
   raiding, ransacking, rapaciousness, rapacity, rape, rapine, ravage,
   ravagement, ravaging, ravenousness, ravishment, razzia, reiving,
   rifling, riot, rioting, sack, sacking, sharkishness, slaughter,
   sowing with salt, spoiling, spoliation, spoliatory, unruliness,
   violation, wolfishness

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