Saqueo in english

Pillage

pronunciation: pɪlɪdʒ part of speech: noun, verb
In gestures

saquear = pillage ; plunder ; loot ; despoil ; rifle ; buccaneer ; ransack ; sack. 

Example: And when, finally, the heavily timbered ranges had been pillaged almost beyond repair, many lumbermen pulled stakes and pushed westward.Example: Close on such paradeground excitements comes the popular sport of plundering for projects.Example: During the invasion of Kuwait the majority of school, public, university and special libraries were looted or destroyed = During the invasion of Kuwait the majority of school, public, university and special libraries were looted or destroyed.Example: The main justifications, couched mostly in race-neutral terms, were that the squatters would increase crime, decrease property values, spread disease, & despoil the natural environment.Example: English, on the other hand, has been accused of waylaying other languages in dark alleys and rifling their pockets for loose vocabulary.Example: But both he and his brother Maurice had supported themselves for some years by buccaneering in the Caribbean Sea.Example: The two polling stations of the town were ransacked by people who drove electoral officials and prevented the vote.Example: The survivors fled in horror while the children and young women were seized as slaves and the village sacked.

saqueo = looting ; sacking ; rampage ; depredation ; plundering ; plunder. 

Example: This article gives a brief personal account of the destruction and looting of library and information facilities in Kuwait during the Iraqi invasion = This article gives a brief personal account of the destruction and looting of library and information facilities in Kuwait during the Iraqi invasion.Example: Lascaris became an exile in Italy following the sacking of Constantinople in 1453.Example: These nocturnal rampages by gangs of werewolves included chasing women, eating prodigiously, being splattered with mud, and caterwauling generally.Example: Libraries and archives are the subject of increasing depredations by thieves and vandals.Example: The focus of the study was the plundering of Jewish gold in the German death camps.Example: He established Samarkand as his imperial capital in the 1360s and set about aggrandising it with plunder from his conquests.

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» saqueo de tumbasgrave robbingbody-snatching .

Example: By the close of the 18th century, grave robbing was a common practice in Britain and the terms used describe these men included body snatchers and grave robbers.

Example: In an especially fine chapter, he shows how debates on political economy linked moral battles over such seemingly disparate issues as slavery, feminism, and body-snatching.

Saqueo synonyms

strip in spanish: tira, pronunciation: strɪp part of speech: noun swag in spanish: Swag, pronunciation: swɔg part of speech: noun foray in spanish: incursión, pronunciation: fɔreɪ part of speech: noun prize in spanish: premio, pronunciation: praɪz part of speech: noun plunder in spanish: saqueo, pronunciation: plʌndɜr part of speech: noun, verb rifle in spanish: rifle, pronunciation: raɪfəl part of speech: noun loot in spanish: botín, pronunciation: lut part of speech: noun, verb booty in spanish: botín, pronunciation: buti part of speech: noun ransack in spanish: saquear, pronunciation: rænsæk part of speech: verb reave in spanish: raptar, pronunciation: riv part of speech: verb despoil in spanish: despojar, pronunciation: despɔɪl part of speech: verb plundering in spanish: saqueo, pronunciation: plʌndɜrɪŋ part of speech: noun pillaging in spanish: expoliación, pronunciation: pɪlɪdʒɪŋ part of speech: noun
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