See loot in All languages combined, or Wiktionary
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"ref": "2019 July 3, Mike D'Angelo, “Oscar Isaac and Ben Affleck Blunder through a Heavy Heist in J.C. Chandor’s Triple Frontier”, in AV Club, archived from the original on 2019-11-21:",
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"ref": "1901 October 11, “District Reports”, in The Agricultural Journal and Mining Record, volume 4, number 16, page 483:",
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"_dis1": "82 18",
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"_dis1": "82 18",
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"ref": "1860, William Howard Russell, My Diary in India in the Year 1858–9, volume II, page 340:",
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"ref": "1862, Walter F. Hook, Lives of the Archbishops of Canterbury, volume II, page 505:",
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"ref": "1956, Billie Holiday et al., Lady Sings the Blues, page 26:",
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"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "grábitʹ",
"sense": "to plunder",
"word": "гра́бить"
},
{
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "razgrabljátʹ",
"sense": "to plunder",
"word": "разграбля́ть"
},
{
"code": "sh",
"lang": "Serbo-Croatian",
"sense": "to plunder",
"word": "oteti"
},
{
"code": "sh",
"lang": "Serbo-Croatian",
"sense": "to plunder",
"word": "oplindrati"
},
{
"code": "es",
"lang": "Spanish",
"sense": "to plunder",
"word": "saquear"
},
{
"code": "sv",
"lang": "Swedish",
"sense": "to plunder",
"word": "plundra"
},
{
"code": "te",
"lang": "Telugu",
"roman": "dōcu",
"sense": "to plunder",
"word": "దోచు"
},
{
"code": "tr",
"lang": "Turkish",
"sense": "to plunder",
"word": "yağmalamak"
},
{
"code": "tr",
"lang": "Turkish",
"sense": "to plunder",
"word": "talan etmek"
},
{
"code": "uk",
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"roman": "marodéryty",
"sense": "to plunder",
"tags": [
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],
"word": "мароде́рити"
},
{
"code": "uk",
"lang": "Ukrainian",
"roman": "rozmarodéryty",
"sense": "to plunder",
"tags": [
"perfective"
],
"word": "розмароде́рити"
},
{
"code": "ur",
"lang": "Urdu",
"roman": "lūṭnā",
"sense": "to plunder",
"word": "لُوٹنا"
}
],
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}
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"ref": "1898, Finley Peter Dunne, Mr. Dooley in Peace & War, page 11:",
"text": "R-run over an' wake up th' loot at th' station.",
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}
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"slang"
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],
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}
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