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Original entry ↗verb
Selected source glosses provide context, not a complete modern definition inventorySynonym of plunder, to seize by violence, particularly during the capture of a city during war or (video games) after successful combat. · To rifle through a dead body and the deceased's belongings, taking anything worth stealing. · Synonym of rob, to steal something from someone by violence or threat of violence.
Borrowed from Hindi लूट (lūṭ, “booty”), either from Sanskrit लोप्त्र (loptra, “booty, stolen property”) or लुण्ट् (luṇṭ, “to rob, plunder”). The figurative meaning developed in American English in the 1920s, resulting in a generalized meaning by the 1950s.
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