略奪 — meaning in English

English meaning

• despoil verb To plunder; to pillage; take spoil from.
• maraud verb To move about in roving fashion looking for plunder; to loiter.
• 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.

Senses

略奪 is used for these senses in English:

• despoil (transitive) To plunder; to pillage; take spoil from.
• maraud (transitive) To raid and pillage.
• pillage The act of pillaging.
• 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.

despoil — full definition

1. verb To plunder; to pillage; take spoil from.
2. verb To violently strip (someone), with indirect object of their possessions etc.; to rob.
3. verb To strip (someone) of their clothes; to undress.

maraud — full definition

1. verb To move about in roving fashion looking for plunder; to loiter.
2. verb To go about aggressively or in a predatory manner.
3. verb To raid and pillage.

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