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saquear — 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.
  • 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.
  • sack noun A large bag, typically of coarse material, used for carrying or storing bulk goods.

Senses

saquear 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.
  • ransack (transitive) To loot or pillage.
  • 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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