LOOTING

Pronunciation (US): (GB):

Meaning:

Plundering during riots or in wartime

Synonyms:

looting; robbery

Classified under:

Nouns denoting acts or actions

Hypernyms ("looting" is a kind of...):

pillage; pillaging; plundering (the act of stealing valuable things from a place)

Derivation:

loot (steal goods; take as spoils)

-ing form of the verb loot