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predare — meaning in English

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English meaning

  • loot noun Goods stolen or taken by force, especially during war, a riot, or (in video games) after defeating an enemy.
  • plunder verb To steal goods from a place by force, typically during war or unrest.
  • predate verb To designate a date earlier than the actual one; to move a date, appointment, event, or period of time to an earlier point (contrast "postdate".)
  • sack noun A large bag, typically of coarse material, used for carrying or storing bulk goods.

Senses

predare is used for these senses in English:

  • loot (transitive) Synonym of plunder, to seize by violence particularly during the capture of a city during war or (video games) after successful combat.
  • plunder (transitive) To pillage, take or destroy all the goods of, by force (as in war); to raid, sack.
  • predate (ambitransitive) To prey upon something.
  • prey on (transitive, figurative) To exploit or victimize.
  • sack To plunder or pillage, especially after capture; to obtain spoils of war from.

loot — full definition

  1. noun Goods stolen or taken by force, especially during war, a riot, or (in video games) after defeating an enemy.
  2. verb To steal goods, typically during a war, riot, or other chaos.

plunder — full definition

  1. verb To steal goods from a place by force, typically during war or unrest.
  2. verb To take something excessively or wrongfully, as if by looting.
  3. noun Goods stolen by force, or the act of taking them.

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