Grab
Grab noun - An instance of theft.
Looting
Looting noun - Plundering during riots or in wartime.
Grab and looting are semantically related in steal goods topic. Sometimes you can use "Grab" instead the word "Looting" as a noun or a verb.
Mutual synonyms
Both words in one sentence
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Revy decides to also grab whatever else of value she can take alongside the painting (such as looting an Iron Cross from the U-Boat captain's corpse), which creeps out Rock.
Source: Nazi Gold - In one of The Simpsons Tree house of horror special, the whole world is in chaos where everything with a microchip goes haywire because of the Y2K bug (caused by Homer), and everyone starts looting everything they can grab.
- Revelations adds the 'Counter Steal' move as one of the defensive options; if timed correctly Ezio both dodges a guards attack and uses his hookblade to grab all the money, ammunition and bomb supplies the guard is carrying, which would otherwise require looting the guard's corpse.
Source: Video Game Stealing
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Looting and Grab. (2016). Retrieved 2026, August 01, from https://thesaurus.plus/related/grab/looting
Grab & Looting. N.p., 2016. Web. 01 Aug. 2026. <https://thesaurus.plus/related/grab/looting>.
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