looter

Examples of looted

looted

In English, many past and present participles of verbs can be used as adjectives. Some of these examples may show the adjective use.

The problem with this approach is that the majority of nearly complete hollow babies have been looted, their context lost.
His schemes are exposed as hollow, his inclinations - towards feasts of looted mock-turtle soup, champagne and cigars - as gluttonous and cowardly.
Both the rock and the toothbrush are looted, in the sense of being taken away, for the purpose of an experiment, from their rightful places.
Needless to say the grave was looted and its contents were sold to local dealers.
The mission was looted and burned only four months after it had been established.
It also appears that elite burials (including those looted before 1983) at the site were overwhelmingly of males.
This site was heavily looted throughout the 1960s.
It first came to the attention of outsiders in 1962 and was subsequently looted during the late 1970s through 1981.
Half of them worked in stores that were looted, while half of them worked in stores that were spared from the violence.
Even here, the team noted that the main office block was purposely burnt down and the housing estate looted and damaged.
Looted or not, shopkeepers have little doubts about what initiated the lootings.
Other stelae and inscriptions have been defaced, reused, looted, lost, or not yet discovered-reasons that are random in nature.
The remainder were looted either anciently or historically, stripping them of their valuable context.
Shopkeepers, both those who were looted and those who were spared, see a logical connection between the passivity of the police and the political character of the lootings.
Seed stores may be looted and seed networks disrupted17.
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