Definition of Plundered

1. Adjective. Wrongfully emptied or stripped of anything of value. "People returned to the plundered village"

Exact synonyms: Looted, Pillaged, Ransacked
Similar to: Empty

Definition of Plundered

1. Verb. (past of plunder) ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Plundered

1. plunder [v] - See also: plunder

Lexicographical Neighbors of Plundered

plumulaceous
plumulae
plumular
plumularia
plumulariae
plumularian
plumularians
plumularias
plumule
plumules
plumulose
plumy
plunder
plunderable
plunderage
plundered
plunderer
plunderers
plunderfish
plunderfishes
plundering
plunderous
plunders
plunge
plunge bra
plunge waterfall
plunge waterfalls
plunged
plunger
plunger mute

Literary usage of Plundered

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Harleian Miscellany: Or, A Collection of Scarce, Curious, and by William Oldys, John Malham (1810)
"St. Allhallows, Wood-street, Dr. Watts, sequestered, plundered, his wife and children turned out of doors, and himself forced to fly. ..."

2. The Life and Strange Surprizing Adventures of Robinson Crusoe, of York by Daniel Defoe (1790)
"... fome ten men in a boat, intending, no doubt, to have come on board and plundered the fhip ; and if they had found us there, to have carried us away for ..."

3. The Catholic Encyclopedia: An International Work of Reference on the by Charles George Herbermann, Edward Aloysius Pace, Condé Bénoist Pallen, Thomas Joseph Shahan, John Joseph Wynne (1913)
"... for the last time entered and plundered the city, but did not succeed in taking Minor Palace Memorial of Alexander II Km Ml.IN, ..."

4. The History of the French Revolution by Adolphe Thiers (1840)
"It will be recollected that in February it had plundered the grocers' shops ... In July it had plundered boats laden with soap coming up the Seine to Paris. ..."

5. The Literary Diary of Ezra Stiles: Ed. Under the Authority of the by Ezra Stiles (1901)
"... they went off in the Morning & landed that day at West Haven & plundered a house or two—then went over towards the fort at [Sketch, by Dr. Stiles, ..."

6. A Diary from Dixie by Mary Boykin Miller Chesnut (1905)
"General Preston was hardly out of sight before poor helpless William had to stand by and see the car plundered. '' My dear Missis! they have cleaned me out, ..."

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