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| Main Entry: | |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | stolen goods |
| Synonyms: | booty, dough, graft, haul, hot goods, lift*, make*, money, pickings, pillage, plunder, plunderage, prize, seizure, spoils, squeeze, take* |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | despoil |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | ravage, destroy |
| Synonyms: | denude, depopulate, depredate, deprive, desecrate, desolate, devastate, devour, dispossess, divest, loot, maraud, pillage, plunder, raid, rifle, rob, sack, spoil, spoliate, strip, vandalize, waste, wreak havoc, wreck |
| Antonyms: | build, construct, improve |
| Main Entry: | dough |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | money |
| Synonyms: | beans, boodle, bread, bucks, cabbage, cash, change, chips, clams, coin, coinage, cold cash, currency, dinero, funds, greenback, hard cash, legal tender, lettuce, loot, moola, pesos, wealth |
| Main Entry: | embezzle |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | steal money, often from employer |
| Synonyms: | abstract, appropriate, defalcate, filch, forge, loot, misapply, misappropriate, misuse, peculate, pilfer, purloin, put hand in cookie jar, put hand in till, skim, thieve |
| Antonyms: | compensate, give, pay, reimburse, return |
| Main Entry: | gut |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | clean out, strip |
| Synonyms: | bowel, decimate, despoil, dilapidate, disembowel, draw, dress, empty, eviscerate, exenterate, loot, pillage, plunder, ransack, ravage, rifle, sack |
| Antonyms: | fill |
| Main Entry: | haul |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | something obtained or moved |
| Synonyms: | booty, burden, cargo, catch, find, freight, gain, harvest, lading, load, loot*, payload, spoils, takings, yield |
| Notes: | a hall is a corridor or passageway in a building; haul (noun) is something that is pulled or transported, and haul (verb) carry or drag slowly or heavily |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | invade |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | attack and encroach |
| Synonyms: | access, assail, assault, breach, burglarize, burst in, crash, descend upon, entrench, fall on, foray, go in, infect, infest, infringe, inroad, interfere, loot, make inroads, maraud, meddle, muscle in, occupy, overrun, overspread, overswarm, penetrate, permeate, pervade, pillage, plunder, raid, ravage, storm, swarm over, trespass, violate |
| Antonyms: | leave alone, surrender, yield |
| Main Entry: | knock off |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | steal |
| Synonyms: | filch, knock over, loot, pilfer, pinch, plunder, purloin, ransack, relieve, rifle, rip off, rob, thieve |
| Antonyms: | give |
| Main Entry: | maraud |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | pillage and plunder |
| Synonyms: | despoil, forage, foray, harass, harry, loot, raid, ransack, ravage, sack |
| Antonyms: | behave |
Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition
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