looted
past simple and past participle ofloot
| 单词 | looted |
| 释义 | looted past simple and past participle ofloot loot verb[IorT] uk/luːt/us/luːt/(usually oflargenumbersofpeopleduring aviolentevent) tostealfromshopsandhouses: During theriotshopswere looted andcarsdamagedor set onfire. to steal something
Indian English tostealsomething from aplaceorperson: Burglars lootedcashandmobilesfrom ashopin Tagore Town. Thepassengersin thegeneralcompartmentof Shramjivi Express were looted androbbedoftheirvaluables. Stealing
Examplesoflootedlooted In English, many past and present participles of verbs can be used as adjectives. Some of these examples may show the adjective use. The problem with this approach is that the majority of nearly complete hollow babies have beenlooted, their context lost. From theCambridge English Corpus His schemes are exposed as hollow, his inclinations - towards feasts oflootedmock-turtle soup, champagne and cigars - as gluttonous and cowardly. From theCambridge English Corpus Both the rock and the toothbrush arelooted, in the sense of being taken away, for the purpose of an experiment, from their rightful places. From theCambridge English Corpus Needless to say the grave waslootedand its contents were sold to local dealers. From theCambridge English Corpus The mission waslootedand burned only four months after it had been established. From theCambridge English Corpus It also appears that elite burials (including thoselootedbefore 1983) at the site were overwhelmingly of males. From theCambridge English Corpus This site was heavilylootedthroughout the 1960s. From theCambridge English Corpus It first came to the attention of outsiders in 1962 and was subsequentlylootedduring the late 1970s through 1981. From theCambridge English Corpus Half of them worked in stores that werelooted, while half of them worked in stores that were spared from the violence. From theCambridge English Corpus Even here, the team noted that the main office block was purposely burnt down and the housing estatelootedand damaged. From theCambridge English Corpus Lootedor not, shopkeepers have little doubts about what initiated the lootings. From theCambridge English Corpus Other stelae and inscriptions have been defaced, reused,looted, lost, or not yet discovered-reasons that are random in nature. From theCambridge English Corpus The remainder werelootedeither anciently or historically, stripping them of their valuable context. From theCambridge English Corpus Shopkeepers, both those who werelootedand those who were spared, see a logical connection between the passivity of the police and the political character of the lootings. From theCambridge English Corpus Seed stores may belootedand seed networks disrupted17. From theCambridge English Corpus These examples are from corpora and from sources on the web. Any opinions in the examples do not represent the opinion of the Cambridge Dictionary editors or of Cambridge University Press or its licensors. |
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