looting

(noun, verb)

noun

1. plundering during riots or in wartime

Similar word(s): robbery

Definition categories: act, pillage, pillaging, plundering

Sentences with looting as a noun:

- During the looting, the mob stole everything they could and then set fire to the buildings.

verb

1. present participle of loot

- While looting the stores the looters took the opportunity for revenge by destroying what they didn't steal.