0 past simple and past participle of loot
1 (usually of large numbers of people during a violent event) to steal from shops and houses:
The problem with this approach is that the majority of nearly complete hollow babies have been looted, their context lost.
His schemes are exposed as hollow, his inclinations - towards feasts of looted mock-turtle soup, champagne and cigars - as gluttonous and cowardly.
Both the rock and the toothbrush are looted, in the sense of being taken away, for the purpose of an experiment, from their rightful places.
Needless to say the grave was looted and its contents were sold to local dealers.
The mission was looted and burned only four months after it had been established.
It also appears that elite burials (including those looted before 1983) at the site were overwhelmingly of males.
This site was heavily looted throughout the 1960s.
It first came to the attention of outsiders in 1962 and was subsequently looted during the late 1970s through 1981.
