Meaning of PLUNDER
| Pronunciation: | | 'plundur
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- [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"
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| | Synonyms: | | booty, despoil, despoil, foray, loot, loot, pillage, pillage, prize, ransack, rape, reave, rifle, sack, spoil, strip, swag, violate |
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| | See Also: | | cut, deplume, destroy, destroy, displume, ruin, ruin, steal, stolen property, take | |
| Webster's 1913 Dictionary |
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\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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| | Related Terms: | | 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 |
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