Looting vs Ransacking - What's the difference?
looting | ransacking |
The act of looting, the act of stealing during a general disturbance.
The act by which something is ransacked.
* 2013 , Andrew Merrifield, Henri Lefebvre: A Critical Introduction (page 58)
As nouns the difference between looting and ransacking
is that looting is the act of looting, the act of stealing during a general disturbance while ransacking is the act by which something is ransacked.As verbs the difference between looting and ransacking
is that looting is present participle of lang=en while ransacking is present participle of ransack.looting
English
Noun
(en noun)- During the looting , the mob stole everything they could and then set fire to the buildings.
Verb
(head)- While looting the stores the looters took the opportunity for revenge by destroying what they didn't steal.
Anagrams
*ransacking
English
Verb
(head)Noun
(en noun)- Lefebvre never saw any of these battles and ransackings , but one wonders what he would have made of them.