| Main Entry: | |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | search madly for |
| Synonyms: | beat, cast about, comb, explore, fine-tooth-comb, grub, hunt, pilfer, plunder, raid, rake, ransack, ravage, rummage, scour, scrounge, seek |
| Main Entry: | harry |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | pester, annoy |
| Synonyms: | attack, badger, bedevil, beleaguer, chivy, depredate, devastate, disturb, fret, gnaw, harass, hassle, irk, irritate, lay waste, molest, persecute, perturb, pillage, plague, plunder, ravage, sack, tease, torment, trouble, upset, vex, worry |
| Antonyms: | aid, assist, help, support |
| Main Entry: | havoc |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | chaotic situation |
| Synonyms: | calamity, cataclysm, catastrophe, chaos, confusion, damage, desolation, despoiling, destruction, devastation, dilapidation, disorder, disruption, loss, mayhem, plunder, rack and ruin, ravages, ruination, shambles, vandalism, waste, wreck, wreckage |
| Antonyms: | peace |
| 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: | loot |
| 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* |
| Main Entry: | loot |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | steal goods |
| Synonyms: | appropriate, boost, burglarize, despoil, grab, gut, liberate, lift, loft, make, moonlight requisition, pillage, plunder, raid, ransack, ravage, relieve, requisition, rifle, rip off, rob, sack, salvage, smash and grab, snatch, snitch, stick up, swipe, take, thieve, tip over |
| Antonyms: | give, receive |
| Main Entry: | misappropriate |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | use wrongly; steal |
| Synonyms: | abuse, appropriate, defalcate, embezzle, misapply, misspend, misuse, peculate, plunder, pocket, rob, swindle |
| Antonyms: | appropriate, use wisely |
| Main Entry: | poach |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | infringe upon; trespass |
| Synonyms: | appropriate, encroach, filch, fish illegally, hunt illegally, intrude, pilfer, plunder, rob, smuggle, steal |
| Antonyms: | keep off |