looting

Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
loot/luːt/

▶noun

• 1 private property taken from an enemy in war or stolen by thieves.

• 2 informal money.

▶verb steal goods from, especially during a war or riot.

■ steal (goods).

– derivatives
looter noun.

– origin C19 (as v.): from Hindi lūṭ, from Sanskrit luṇṭh- ‘rob’.