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Plunder

Plunder Meaning & Definition
Plunder Definition And Meaning

What's The Definition Of Plunder?

[n] goods or money obtained illegally
[v] destroy and strip of its possession; "The soldiers raped the beautiful country"
[v] steal goods; take as spoils; "During the earthquake people looted the stores that were deserted by their owners"
[v] plunder after capture, as of a town
[v] take illegally; of intellectual property; "This writer plundered from famous authors"

Synonyms | Synonyms for Plunder: booty | despoil | despoil | foray | loot | loot | pillage | pillage | prize | ransack | rape | reave | rifle | sack | spoil | strip | swag | violate

Related Terms | Find terms related to Plunder: banditry | blackmail | boodle | booty | brigandage | brigandism | capture | depredate | depredation | desolate | despoil | despoiling | despoilment | despoliation | devastate | direption | fleece | forage | foraging | foray | freeboot | freebooting | graft | gut | haul | hot goods | knock off | knock over | lay waste | loot | looting | maraud | marauding | perks | perquisite | pickings | pillage | pillaging | pirate | plundering | pork barrel | prey on | prize | public till | public trough | raid | raiding | ransack | ransacking | rape | rapine | ravage | ravagement | ravaging | raven | ravish | ravishment | razzia | reive | reiving | relieve | rifle | rifling | rob | robbery | sack | sacking | seize | spoil | spoiling | spoils | spoils of office | spoliate | spoliation | squeeze | stealings | stick up | stolen goods | strip | swag | sweep | take | things | till | traps | tricks | vandalism | vandalize

See Also | cut | deplume | destroy | destroy | displume | ruin | ruin | steal | stolen property | take

Plunder In Webster's Dictionary

\Plun"der\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Plundered}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Plundering}.] [G. pl["u]ndern to plunder, plunder frippery, baggage.] 1. To take the goods of by force, or without right; to pillage; to spoil; to sack; to strip; to rob; as, to plunder travelers. Nebuchadnezzar plunders the temple of God. --South. 2. To take by pillage; to appropriate forcibly; as, the enemy plundered all the goods they found. Syn: To pillage; despoil; sack; rifle; strip; rob.
\Plun"der\, n. 1. The act of plundering or pillaging; robbery. See Syn. of {Pillage}. Inroads and plunders of the Saracens. --Sir T. North. 2. That which is taken by open force from an enemy; pillage; spoil; booty; also, that which is taken by theft or fraud. ``He shared in the plunder.'' --Cowper. 3. Personal property and effects; baggage or luggage. [Slang, Southwestern U.S.]

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