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plunder

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Noun, Verb (usu participle), Verb (transitive)
 : 
plun=der

WORDNET DICTIONARY

Noun plunder has 1 sense

Verb plunder has 4 senses

CIDE DICTIONARY

plunderv. t. [G. plÜndern to plunder, plunder frippery, baggage.].
  •  To take the goods of by force, or without right; to pillage; to spoil; to sack; to strip; to rob; as, to plunder travelers.  [1913 Webster]
    "Nebuchadnezzar plunders the temple of God."  [1913 Webster]
  •  To take by pillage; to appropriate forcibly; as, the enemy plundered all the goods they found.  [1913 Webster]
Syn. -- To pillage; despoil; sack; rifle; strip; rob.
plundern. 
  •  The act of plundering or pillaging; robbery. See Syn. of Pillage.  [1913 Webster]
    "Inroads and plunders of the Saracens."  [1913 Webster]
  •  That which is taken by open force from an enemy; pillage; spoil; booty; also, that which is taken by theft or fraud.  Cowper.  [1913 Webster]
  •  Personal property and effects; baggage or luggage.  [1913 Webster]

OXFORD DICTIONARY

plunder, v. & n.
--v.tr.
1 rob (a place or person) forcibly of goods, e.g. as in war.
2 rob systematically.
3 (also absol.) steal or embezzle (goods).
--n.
1 the violent or dishonest acquisition of property.
2 property acquired by plundering.
3 colloq. profit, gain.

Derivative
plunderer n.
Etymology
LG pl{uuml}ndern lit. 'rob of household goods' f. MHG plunder clothing etc.

DEVIL DICTIONARY

plunder

v. To take the property of another without observing the decent and customary reticences of theft. To effect a change of ownership with the candid concomitance of a brass band. To wrest the wealth of A from B and leave C lamenting a vanishing opportunity.

THESAURUS

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

ROGET THESAURUS

plunder

Stealing

N stealing, theft, thievery, latrociny, direption, abstraction, appropriation, plagiary, plagiarism, autoplagiarism, latrocinium, spoliation, plunder, pillage, sack, sackage, rapine, brigandage, foray, razzia, rape, depredation, raid, blackmail, piracy, privateering, buccaneering, license to plunder, letters of marque, letters of mark and reprisal, filibustering, filibusterism, burglary, housebreaking, badger game, robbery, highway robbery, hold-up, mugging, peculation, embezzlement, fraud, larceny, petty larceny, grand larceny, shoplifting, thievishness, rapacity, kleptomania, Alsatia, den of Cacus, den of thieves, blackmail, extortion, shakedown, Black Hand, thief, thieving, thievish, light-fingered, furacious, furtive, piratical, predaceous, predal, predatory, predatorial, raptorial, stolen, sic vos non vobis.

VB steal, thieve, rob, mug, purloin, pilfer, filch, prig, bag, nim, crib, cabbage, palm, abstract, appropriate, plagiarize, convey away, carry off, abduct, kidnap, crimp, make off with, walk off with, run off with, run away with, spirit away, seize, plunder, pillage, rifle, sack, loot, ransack, spoil, spoliate, despoil, strip, sweep, gut, forage, levy blackmail, pirate, pickeer, maraud, lift cattle, poach, smuggle, run, badger, bail up, hold up, stick up, bunco, bunko, filibuster, swindle, peculate, embezzle, sponge, mulct, rook, bilk, pluck, pigeon, fleece, defraud, obtain under false pretenses, live by one's wits, rob Peter to pay Paul, borrow of Peter to pay Paul, set a thief to catch a thief, disregard the distinction between meum and tuum, fence, launder, launder money.

Booty

N booty, spoil, plunder, prize, loot, swag, pickings, spolia opima, prey, blackmail, stolen goods, manubial.

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