saccheggiare — meaning in English

English meaning

• loot noun Goods stolen or taken by force, especially during war, a riot, or (in video games) after defeating an enemy.
• pillage verb To loot or plunder a place by force, typically during war.
• plunder verb To steal goods from a place by force, typically during war or unrest.
• ransack verb To search a place thoroughly and roughly, often leaving it in disorder.
• rob verb To take property from a person or place unlawfully, often through force or threat.
• sack noun A large bag, typically of coarse material, used for carrying or storing bulk goods.

Senses

saccheggiare 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.
• pillage (ambitransitive) To loot or plunder by force, especially in time of war.
• plunder (transitive) To pillage, take or destroy all the goods of, by force (as in war); to raid, sack.
• plunder (transitive) To make extensive (over)use of, as if by plundering; to use or use up wrongfully.
• ransack (transitive) To loot or pillage.
• rob (transitive) To steal from, especially using force or violence.
• 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.

pillage — full definition

1. verb To loot or plunder a place by force, typically during war.
2. noun The act of looting, or the goods taken by looting.

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