Looting
Looting noun - Plundering during riots or in wartime.
Stop
Stop verb - To bring (as an action or operation) to an immediate end.
Both words in one sentence
- Apocalypse Anarchy: Despite the death of 7 billion people, there are hordes of perfectly healthy "Scavs" - The Immune crawling the land, looting and murdering all too weak to stop them.
Source: Series / 12 Monkeys -
Infamously, the latter half of the war largely degraded into the various participants continuing to fight because they could not afford to stop: It was simply cheaper to keep paying your armies by looting the enemy's lands than paying the severance package.
Source: Useful Notes / Thirty Years' War
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