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Looted vs Rooted - What's the difference?

looted | rooted |

As verbs the difference between looted and rooted

is that looted is (loot) while rooted is (root).

As an adjective rooted is

fixed in one position; immobile; unable to move.

looted

English

Verb

(head)
  • (loot)

    • Anagrams

    * *

    loot

    English

    Etymology 1

    From (etyl) loet, loete .

    Alternative forms

    *

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A kind of scoop or ladle, chiefly used to remove the scum from brine-pans in saltworks.

    • Etymology 2

    Attested 1788, a loan from Hindustani . The verb is from 1842. Fallows (1885) records both the noun and the verb as "Recent. Anglo-Indian". In origin only applicable to plundering in warfare. A figurative meaning developed in American English in the 1920s, resulting in a generalized meaning by the 1950s

    Noun

    (-)
  • The act of plundering.
    • the loot of an ancient city
  • plunder, booty, especially from a ransacked city.
  • (colloquial, US) any prize or profit received for free, especially Christmas presents
  • *1956 "Free Loot for Children" (LIFE Magazine, 23 April 1956, p. 131)
  • (video games) Items dropped from defeated enemies in video games and online games.
    • Synonyms
    * swag
    Related terms
    * contraband * plunder

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • to steal, especially as part of war, riot or other group violence.
  • *1833 "Gunganarian, the leader of the Chooars, continues his system of looting and murder", The asiatic Journal and monthly register for British India and its Dependencies Black, Parbury & Allen, p. 66.
  • (video games) to examine the corpse of a fallen enemy for loot.

    • Anagrams

    * *

    References

    *Samuel Fallows, The progressive dictionary of the English language: a supplementary wordbook to all leading dictionaries of the United States and Great Britain (1885). English terms derived from Hindi English terms derived from Urdu ----

    rooted

    English

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Fixed in one position; immobile; unable to move.
    • She stayed rooted in place.
  • * 2002 , Peter Loizos, Chapter Two: Misconceiving refugees?'', Renos K. Papadopoulos (editor), ''Therapeutic Care for Refugees: No Place Like Home , page 54,
    • Those with fewest attachments or obligations may be most vulnerable to transitions from a more rooted life, before flight, to the new as-yet unrooted or uprooted life.
  • * {{quote-news
    • , year=2011 , date=October 15 , author=Michael Da Silva , title=Wigan 1 - 3 Bolton , work=BBC Sport citation , page= , passage=Six successive defeats had left them rooted to the bottom of the Premier League table but, clearly under instructions to attack from the outset, Bolton started far the brighter.}}
  • (figuratively) Ingrained, as through repeated use; entrenched; habitual or instinctive.
  • * 1782 May, Isaac Kimber, Edward Kimber (editors), The Link-Boy'', ''The London Magazine, or, Gentleman?s Monthly Intelligencer , Volume 51, page 205,
    • He will immediately break in on their mo?t rooted prejudices ; and with a kind of malignant ?atisfaction hack their darling notions with un?paring rigour and unblu?hing in?olence.
  • * 1985 , Anthony Hyman, Charles Babbage: Pioneer Of The Computer , page 32,
    • The greater part of his property he has acquired himself during years of industry ; but with it he has acquired the most rooted habits of suspicion.
  • * 2011 , William P. Ryan, Working from the Heart: A Therapist?s Guide to Heart-Centered Psychotherapy , page 47,
    • With other experiences added on top, the feeling state becomes more entrenched, more rooted .
  • Having a basic or fundamental connection (to a thing); based, originating (from).
  • * 1979 , Edward Digby Baltzell, Puritan Boston and Quaker Philadelphia , page 280,
    • Proper Philadelphians, especially before they became Episcopalians, and the unfashionable branches of their families to this day are surely more rooted in Westtown than St. Paul?s, the fashionable favorite.
  • * 1997 , William E. Reiser, To Hear God?s Word, Listen to the World: The Liberation of Spirituality , page 12,
    • For what is gradually taking hold, I think, is a way of drawing near to God that is far more rooted' in history and far more ' rooted in the gospel than we have been accustomed to.
  • * 2008 , Michael Allen Gillespie, The Theological Origins of Modernity , page 93,
    • This form of humanism posed a greater danger to the monks and clerics than Italian humanism because it was less extravagant, less pagan, and more rooted in an ideal of Christian charity that the church at least nominally shared.
  • (mathematics, graph theory, of a tree or graph) Having a root.
  • (slang) In trouble or in strife, screwed.
    • I am absolutely rooted if Ferris finds out about this
  • (Australia, New Zealand, slang) Broken, damaged, non-functional.
    • I'm going to have to call a mechanic, my car's rooted .
  • (computing, uncomparable) Having a root (superuser) account that has been compromised.
    • You are rooted . All your base are belong to us.

    Derived terms

    * unrooted

    Verb

    (head)
  • (root)