Illustration: On a disrupted town street, armed raiders drag bolts of cloth and a merchant’s cash box through a shop’s broken wooden shutters. One intruder stuffs goods into a bulging sack while another keeps the frightened shopkeeper back with an outstretched weapon.

JLPT N1nounLevel estimated by Bebop

略りゃく奪だつ

ryakudatsu

looting, plunder

Example sentences

  1. 政府役人せいふやくにんの豪邸ごうていが略奪りゃくだつされた。

    A government official’s stately mansion was looted.

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  2. この際さいに御殿ごてんなどは兵士へいしたちによって掠奪りゃくだつされ、破壊はかいされたと伝つたえられる。

    It is reported that the palaces and other buildings were pillaged and destroyed by soldiers at that time.

    KFTT corpus (NICT), Wikipedia · CC BY-SA 3.0 · Source

  3. 将門軍まさかどぐんは国府こくふとその周辺しゅうへんで略奪りゃくだつと乱暴らんぼうのかぎりをつくした。

    In Kokufu and the surrounding area, Masakado’s army ruthlessly looted and rioted.

    KFTT corpus (NICT), Wikipedia · CC BY-SA 3.0 · Source

Kanji in 略奪

  • 略abbreviation; omissionOnリャクKunほぼ・はぶく・おかす
  • 奪rob; take by forceOnダツKunうばう

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