Definition of Plunder

1. Noun. Goods or money obtained illegally.

Exact synonyms: Booty, Dirty Money, Loot, Pillage, Prize, Swag
Generic synonyms: Stolen Property
Terms within: Cut
Derivative terms: Loot, Pillage

2. Verb. Take illegally; of intellectual property. "They plunder the goods"; "This writer plundered from famous authors"
Exact synonyms: Loot
Category relationships: Crime, Criminal Offence, Criminal Offense, Law-breaking, Offence, Offense
Generic synonyms: Steal

3. Verb. Plunder (a town) after capture. "The barbarians sacked Rome"
Exact synonyms: Sack
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"
Exact synonyms: Despoil, Foray, Loot, Pillage, Ransack, Reave, Rifle, Strip
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"
Exact synonyms: Despoil, Rape, Spoil, Violate
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

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plunder (current term)
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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), ..."

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