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praedor — meaning in English

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English meaning

  • despoil verb To plunder; to pillage; take spoil from.
  • 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.
  • ransack verb To search a place thoroughly and roughly, often leaving it in disorder.

Senses

praedor is used for these senses in English:

  • despoil (transitive) To plunder; to pillage; take spoil from.
  • 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.
  • ransack (transitive) To loot or pillage.

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.

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.

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