saqueo

m.

1 sacking.

2 loot, sack, pillage, plundering.

pres.indicat.

1^st person singular (yo) present indicative of spanish verb: saquear.

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saqueo

► nombre masculino

1 (de ciudades) sacking, plundering; (de casa, comercio) looting

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SM

1) (Mil) sacking

2) (=robo) looting, plundering, pillaging

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masculino (de pueblo) sacking, plundering; (de tienda) looting

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= looting, sacking, rampage, depredation, plundering, plunder.

Ex. This article gives a brief personal account of the destruction and looting of library and information facilities in Kuwait during the Iraqi invasion = Este artículo presenta un relato personal breve de la destrucción y el saqueo de las bibliotecas y centros de información de Kuwait durante la invasión iraquí.

Ex. Lascaris became an exile in Italy following the sacking of Constantinople in 1453.

Ex. These nocturnal rampages by gangs of werewolves included chasing women, eating prodigiously, being splattered with mud, and caterwauling generally.

Ex. Libraries and archives are the subject of increasing depredations by thieves and vandals.

Ex. The focus of the study was the plundering of Jewish gold in the German death camps.

Ex. He established Samarkand as his imperial capital in the 1360s and set about aggrandising it with plunder from his conquests.

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* saqueo de tumbas = grave robbing, body-snatching.

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masculino (de pueblo) sacking, plundering; (de tienda) looting

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= looting, sacking, rampage, depredation, plundering, plunder.

Ex: This article gives a brief personal account of the destruction and looting of library and information facilities in Kuwait during the Iraqi invasion = Este artículo presenta un relato personal breve de la destrucción y el saqueo de las bibliotecas y centros de información de Kuwait durante la invasión iraquí.

Ex: Lascaris became an exile in Italy following the sacking of Constantinople in 1453.

Ex: These nocturnal rampages by gangs of werewolves included chasing women, eating prodigiously, being splattered with mud, and caterwauling generally.

Ex: Libraries and archives are the subject of increasing depredations by thieves and vandals.

Ex: The focus of the study was the plundering of Jewish gold in the German death camps.

Ex: He established Samarkand as his imperial capital in the 1360s and set about aggrandising it with plunder from his conquests.

* saqueo de tumbas = grave robbing, body-snatching.

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saqueo

masculine

(de un pueblo) sacking, plundering; (de una tienda) looting

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Del verbo saquear: (conjugate saquear)

saqueo es:

1ª persona singular (yo) presente indicativo

saqueó es:

3ª persona singular (él/ella/usted) pretérito indicativo

Multiple Entries:
saquear    
saqueo
saquear (conjugate saquear) verbo transitivo ‹ciudad/población› to sack, plunder;
‹tienda/establecimiento› to loot
saquear verbo transitivo
1 Hist (una población) to sack, plunder: las tropas saquearon la aldea, the troops plundered the village
2 fig (desvalijar una tienda, una casa) to loot, rifle
saqueo sustantivo masculino
1 Hist (de una localidad) plundering, sacking
2 fig (en una tienda, una casa) looting, ransacking
'saqueo' also found in these entries:
Spanish:
saco
English:
pillage
- plunder
- sacking
- looting

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saqueo nm

1. [de ciudad] sacking

2. [de tienda] looting;

Fam [de nevera, armario] raiding

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saqueo nm

depredación: sacking, plunder, looting