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Definition of Plunder
1. Verb. Take illegally; of intellectual property. "They plunder the goods"; "This writer plundered from famous authors"
Category relationships: Crime, Criminal Offence, Criminal Offense, Law-breaking, Offence, Offense
Generic synonyms: Steal
2. Noun. Goods or money obtained illegally.
Generic synonyms: Stolen Property
Terms within: Cut
Derivative terms: Loot, Pillage
3. Verb. Plunder (a town) after capture. "The barbarians sacked Rome"
Entails: Destroy, Ruin
Generic synonyms: Take
Derivative terms: Plunderage, Plunderer, Plundering, Sack
4. Verb. Steal goods; take as spoils. "During the earthquake people looted the stores that were deserted by their owners"
Generic synonyms: Take
Specialized synonyms: Deplume, Displume
Derivative terms: Despoiler, Despoilment, Despoliation, Loot, Looter, Looting, Pillage, Pillager, Pillaging, Plunderer, Plundering
5. Verb. Destroy and strip of its possession. "They want to plunder the prisoners "; "The soldiers raped the beautiful country"
Generic synonyms: Destroy, Ruin
Derivative terms: Despoilment, Despoliation, Plundering, Rape, Spoil, Spoil, Spoilation, Spoliation
Definition of Plunder
1. v. t. To take the goods of by force, or without right; to pillage; to spoil; to sack; to strip; to rob; as, to plunder travelers.
2. n. The act of plundering or pillaging; robbery. See Syn. of Pillage.
Definition of Plunder
1. Verb. (transitive) To pillage, take or destroy all the goods of, by force (as in war); to raid, sack. ¹
2. Verb. (intransitive) To take by force or wrongfully; to commit robbery or looting, to raid. ¹
3. Verb. (transitive) To make extensive (over)use of, as if by plundering; to use or use up wrongfully. ¹
4. Noun. An instance of plundering ¹
5. Noun. The loot attained by plundering ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Plunder
1. to rob of goods by force [v -ED, -ING, -S]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Plunder
Literary usage of Plunder
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The History of the United States of America by Richard Hildreth (1880)
"The appetite for plunder, so characteristic at all times of the British army and
navy, ... The plunder of Eustatius presently became tho subject of bitter ..."
2. An American Glossary by Richard Hopwood Thornton (1912)
"plunder—contd. 1827 " I have little occasion for what you call plunder, ...
1833 [They were] satisfied to tote their plunder upon mules and pack-horses. ..."
3. The History of Rome by Wilhelm Ihne (1871)
"Only a portion of the army, never more than one-half, was allowed to plunder,
lest during the inevitable disorder the safety of the whole might be ..."
4. The Cambridge Modern History by Adolphus William Ward, George Walter Prothero (1904)
"1796] The plunder of the Milanese and that the Austrian garrison was ...
The facilities for plunder tacitly granted by the young commander also began to sap ..."
5. Documentary History of Reconstruction: Political, Military, Social by Walter Lynwood Fleming (1906)
"Lawless men, singly and in organized bands, engaged in general plunder; every ::es
of intrigue and peculation and theft WCTC resorted to. ..."
6. An Etymological Dictionary of the English Language by Walter William Skeat (1893)
"[But the words peel, to strip, and peel, to plunder, are from different ... Lat.
pilare, to plunder, pillage ; a rare verb, used by Ammianus PILL (i), ..."
7. The History of the United States of America by Richard Hildreth (1880)
"The appetite for plunder, so characteristic at all times of the British army and
navy, ... The plunder of Eustatius presently became tho subject of bitter ..."
8. An American Glossary by Richard Hopwood Thornton (1912)
"plunder—contd. 1827 " I have little occasion for what you call plunder, ...
1833 [They were] satisfied to tote their plunder upon mules and pack-horses. ..."
9. The History of Rome by Wilhelm Ihne (1871)
"Only a portion of the army, never more than one-half, was allowed to plunder,
lest during the inevitable disorder the safety of the whole might be ..."
10. The Cambridge Modern History by Adolphus William Ward, George Walter Prothero (1904)
"1796] The plunder of the Milanese and that the Austrian garrison was ...
The facilities for plunder tacitly granted by the young commander also began to sap ..."
11. Documentary History of Reconstruction: Political, Military, Social by Walter Lynwood Fleming (1906)
"Lawless men, singly and in organized bands, engaged in general plunder; every ::es
of intrigue and peculation and theft WCTC resorted to. ..."
12. An Etymological Dictionary of the English Language by Walter William Skeat (1893)
"[But the words peel, to strip, and peel, to plunder, are from different ... Lat.
pilare, to plunder, pillage ; a rare verb, used by Ammianus PILL (i), ..."