Saqueo in english
Pillage
pronunciation: pɪlɪdʒ part of speech: noun, verb
pronunciation: pɪlɪdʒ part of speech: noun, verb
In gestures
saquear = pillage ; plunder ; loot ; despoil ; rifle ; buccaneer ; ransack ; sack.
Example: And when, finally, the heavily timbered ranges had been pillaged almost beyond repair, many lumbermen pulled stakes and pushed westward.Example: Close on such paradeground excitements comes the popular sport of plundering for projects.Example: During the invasion of Kuwait the majority of school, public, university and special libraries were looted or destroyed = During the invasion of Kuwait the majority of school, public, university and special libraries were looted or destroyed.Example: The main justifications, couched mostly in race-neutral terms, were that the squatters would increase crime, decrease property values, spread disease, & despoil the natural environment.Example: English, on the other hand, has been accused of waylaying other languages in dark alleys and rifling their pockets for loose vocabulary.Example: But both he and his brother Maurice had supported themselves for some years by buccaneering in the Caribbean Sea.Example: The two polling stations of the town were ransacked by people who drove electoral officials and prevented the vote.Example: The survivors fled in horror while the children and young women were seized as slaves and the village sacked.saqueo = looting ; sacking ; rampage ; depredation ; plundering ; plunder.
Example: This article gives a brief personal account of the destruction and looting of library and information facilities in Kuwait during the Iraqi invasion = This article gives a brief personal account of the destruction and looting of library and information facilities in Kuwait during the Iraqi invasion.Example: Lascaris became an exile in Italy following the sacking of Constantinople in 1453.Example: These nocturnal rampages by gangs of werewolves included chasing women, eating prodigiously, being splattered with mud, and caterwauling generally.Example: Libraries and archives are the subject of increasing depredations by thieves and vandals.Example: The focus of the study was the plundering of Jewish gold in the German death camps.Example: He established Samarkand as his imperial capital in the 1360s and set about aggrandising it with plunder from his conquests.more:
» saqueo de tumbas = grave robbing ; body-snatching .
Example: By the close of the 18th century, grave robbing was a common practice in Britain and the terms used describe these men included body snatchers and grave robbers. Example: In an especially fine chapter, he shows how debates on political economy linked moral battles over such seemingly disparate issues as slavery, feminism, and body-snatching.