Should I welcome this man with open arms and allow myself to become an instigator – a facilitator – of the thief, the rapist and the looter? When the looter wipes his dirty parts after the rape, he kills both his victims and my sons. I appear as a benefactor and not as a plunderer of the Indians. September 19, 2009 at 7:38 am looting=Burglar Yes? He had built a looting for himself, and he died like a looter, which was abandoned even by those who were dear to him. «He has the right,» said Picasso, a shameless pile of African paintings, «he is a Negro.» «You are a rapist, a looter and a thief of the workers` rights,» he said, «and may you rot in hell.» Douaoui says a French journalist, whom she prefers not to mention by name, wrote at the beginning of her obituary: «The Pil camp of Africa is dead.» But go to the temple of Minerva, the plunderer, with sacrifices gathered by the matrons of discernment. I was of course that Deal needed no less than ten guineas, and paid for by an Indian`s compressor because he had carried it on board two miles from shore when he was ready to sail; so that his necessity, as his pounder had well understood, was absolute. His partner Urman was a Tatar who was round and tough, with the big smile of a successful pil camp. When I turned the other cheek, the looter raped my daughters and my wife. I buried beloved dead on this trip and handed over all my substance to a looter. «No, with St. Mary,» replied another; «He is a disciple of the sworn enemy and ennobled clown Halbert Glendinning, who adopts the style of Avenel – once a vassal of the church, now a looter of the church.» Merriam-Webster.com dictionary, Merriam-Webster, www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/pillage.
Accessed October 11, 2022. PROOF – Lolcats `n` Funny Pictures of Cats – I Can Has Cheezburger? The money was tight enough for Dickey`s family to use silverware stolen from the local west of Sizzlinæ. L. Jon Wertheim, Sports Illustrated April 2, 2012 Pilfer can remind you of a similar and serious word: looting. The two words share more than a first syllable; Looter comes from an old word meaning «loot» (as in things that are stolen or taken violently, especially during a war) and looting means «taking things from a place by force, especially during a war.» But despite their similarities, the words are very different in modern usage. In his etymological past, Pilfer has long since rid himself of the connotations of violence; What is stolen is not taken by force. Looting, on the other hand, remains firmly rooted in violence, and in particular in war; It`s not a term you use when someone has smuggled cookies out of a cookie pot. Nglish: Translation of looting for Spanish-speaking Middle English pounding, from Anglo-French, from Piler to Rob, Plunder These sample sentences are automatically selected from various online information sources to reflect the current use of the word «looting». The opinions expressed in the examples do not represent the opinion of Merriam-Webster or its editors.
Send us your feedback. Find the answers online with Practical English Usage, your essential guide to English language problems. Devastation, devastation, garbage, bags, looting, looting means devastation through looting or destruction. Devastation involves violent, often cumulative, looting and destruction. A hurricane that devastated coastal devastation involves the complete destruction and devastation of a vast area. An earthquake that has devastated the city`s garbage can mean that the same result is achieved by a slow process and not by sudden and violent actions. Years of drought had been wasted The sack of the region involved transporting all valuable goods from one place. The barbarians who plundered ancient Rome involve ruthless plunder at will, but without the completeness suggested by looting. Settlements looted by the Vikings are considered looting or theft without proposing the resulting destruction. the Nazis looted art museums Pilfer is synonymous with theft, but this usually involves some type of theft.
What is stolen is usually stolen secretly, so no one notices – in small quantities and often over and over again. For example, you can steal cookies from a cookie jar until an abundant supply has been wiped out. The word is sometimes used for this type of theft: the stealthy and progressive theft of something that is not worth much anyway: several contracts were then concluded with the Chippewa and Pillager Indians, who simply changed or reduced their reserve. Find out which words work together and create more natural English with the Oxford Collocations Dictionary app. For generations, scavengers roamed this city with impunity, rummaging through abandoned properties and light poles to steal steel, copper and other metals that they could exchange for cash in scrap yards. The practice left tens of thousands of buildings so damaged that they could not be restored, turning places like the North End into dark cityscapes that seemed to have been devastated by a tornado. John Eligon, The New York Times, March 15, 2015 around 1593, in the sense defined in the transitive sense But it is also used when stolen things actually have value, and the act of stealing a serious criminal act: Looting is a city in Cass County, Minnesota, United States. The population was 469 at the 2010 census. It is part of the Brainerd Micropolitan Statistical Zone.
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