from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
adjective wrongfully emptied or stripped of anything of value.
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verb Simple past tense and past participle of loot.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
adjective wrongfully emptied or stripped of anything of value
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So urgent was the supposed need for Congress to forestall a catastrophic loss of teacher jobs that the House was called back from its summer recess and money looted from the food stamp program.
So urgent was the supposed need for Congress to forestall a catastrophic loss of teacher jobs that the House was called back from its summer recess and money looted from the food stamp program.
No reforms of corporate governance, and no attempts to get back the billions of dollars that financial executives looted from the companies they destroyed.
So urgent was the supposed need for Congress to forestall a catastrophic loss of teacher jobs that the House was called back from its summer recess and money looted from the food stamp program.
No reforms of corporate governance, and no attempts to get back the billions of dollars that financial executives looted from the companies they destroyed.
No reforms of corporate governance, and no attempts to get back the billions of dollars that financial executives looted from the companies they destroyed.
No reforms of corporate governance, and no attempts to get back the billions of dollars that financial executives looted from the companies they destroyed.
So urgent was the supposed need for Congress to forestall a catastrophic loss of teacher jobs that the House was called back from its summer recess and money looted from the food stamp program.
No reforms of corporate governance, and no attempts to get back the billions of dollars that financial executives looted from the companies they destroyed.
No reforms of corporate governance, and no attempts to get back the billions of dollars that financial executives looted from the companies they destroyed.
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