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Loot

The act of plundering.

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Manner of action 2

Deplume 76% connected

To strip or pluck off the feather of; to deprive of of plumage.

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Displume 76% connected

To strip of, or as of, a plume, or plumes; to deprive of decoration; to dishonor; to degrade.

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Broader term 4

Money 76% connected

A piece of metal, as gold, silver, copper, etc., coined, or stamped, and issued by the sovereign authority as a medium of exchange in financial trans…

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Rip 76% connected

A wicker fish basket.

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Steal 76% connected

A handle; a stale, or stele.

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Take 76% connected

Taken.

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Looter 74% connected

A plunderer.

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Looter 74% connected

A plunderer.

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Pillage 74% connected

The act of pillaging; robbery.

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Pillage 74% connected

The act of pillaging; robbery.

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Component part 1

Cut 70% connected

of Cut

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Synonym 24

Boodle 92% connected

The whole collection or lot; caboodle.

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

Open English WordNet places these words in at least one shared synset. They share a lexicalised sense, but context, register and collocation should still be checked before substitution.

Booty 92% connected

That which is seized by violence or obtained by robbery, especially collective spoil taken in war; plunder; pillage.

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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Bread 92% connected

To spread.

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Cabbage 92% connected

An esculent vegetable of many varieties, derived from the wild Brassica oleracea of Europe. The common cabbage has a compact head of leaves. The caul…

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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Despoil 92% connected

To strip, as of clothing; to divest or unclothe.

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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Dough 92% connected

Paste of bread; a soft mass of moistened flour or meal, kneaded or unkneaded, but not yet baked; as, to knead dough.

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Foray 92% connected

A sudden or irregular incursion in border warfare; hence, any irregular incursion for war or spoils; a raid.

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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Gelt 92% connected

Trubute, tax.

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Kale 92% connected

A variety of cabbage in which the leaves do not form a head, being nearly the original or wild form of the species.

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Lettuce 92% connected

A composite plant of the genus Lactuca (L. sativa), the leaves of which are used as salad. Plants of this genus yield a milky juice, from which lactu…

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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Lucre 92% connected

Gain in money or goods; profit; riches; -- often in an ill sense.

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Moolah 92% connected

Alt. of Moollah

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Pelf 92% connected

Money; riches; lucre; gain; -- generally conveying the idea of something ill-gotten or worthless. It has no plural.

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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Pillage 92% connected

The act of pillaging; robbery.

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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Plunder 92% connected

To take the goods of by force, or without right; to pillage; to spoil; to sack; to strip; to rob; as, to plunder travelers.

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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Prize 92% connected

That which is taken from another; something captured; a thing seized by force, stratagem, or superior power.

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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Ransack 92% connected

To search thoroughly; to search every place or part of; as, to ransack a house.

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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Reave 92% connected

To take away by violence or by stealth; to snatch away; to rob; to despoil; to bereave. [Archaic]

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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Rifle 92% connected

To seize and bear away by force; to snatch away; to carry off.

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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Scratch 92% connected

To rub and tear or mark the surface of with something sharp or ragged; to scrape, roughen, or wound slightly by drawing something pointed or rough ac…

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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Strip 92% connected

To deprive; to bereave; to make destitute; to plunder; especially, to deprive of a covering; to skin; to peel; as, to strip a man of his possession,…

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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Sugar 92% connected

A sweet white (or brownish yellow) crystalline substance, of a sandy or granular consistency, obtained by crystallizing the evaporated juice of certa…

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Swag 92% connected

To hang or move, as something loose and heavy; to sway; to swing.

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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Wampum 92% connected

Beads made of shells, used by the North American Indians as money, and also wrought into belts, etc., as an ornament.

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