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