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verb

Plunder v. t. (past & past part. plundered; pres. part. plundering)

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."

To take by pillage; to appropriate forcibly; as, the enemy plundered all the goods they found.

Synonyms: To pillage; despoil; sack; rifle; strip; rob.

noun

Plunder n.

The act of plundering or pillaging; robbery. See Syn. of Pillage. "Inroads and plunders of the Saracens."

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."

Personal property and effects; baggage or luggage. (Slang, Southwestern U.S.)

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Etymology of 'Plunder'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Plunder" Quotes from Famous Books

... no sooner reached Dublin at the opening of 1689 than Tyrconnell threw off the mask. A flag was hoisted over Dublin Castle with the words embroidered on its folds "Now or Never." The signal called every Catholic to arms. The maddened Irishmen flung themselves on the plunder which their masters had left and in a few weeks havoc was done, the French envoy told Lewis, which it would take years ...

— History of the English People, Volume VII (of 8) - The Revolution, 1683-1760; Modern England, 1760-1767 • John Richard Green

... in the plunder of the Church that we must seek for the primary cause of our political exclusion, and our commercial restraint. That unhallowed booty created a factitious aristocracy, ever fearful that they might be called upon to regorge their sacrilegious spoil. To prevent ...

— Coningsby • Benjamin Disraeli

... ameliorating the condition of the people, and in repressing the turbulence of the lower classes of the great towns; and of the robber chieftains who, like John of Gischala, took advantage of the relaxation of authority, caused by the successful rising against the Romans, to plunder and tyrannize over ...

— For the Temple - A Tale of the Fall of Jerusalem • G. A. Henty

... have your answer, you that thought To find our London unawakened still, A sleeping plunder for you, thought to fill The gorge of private greed, and count for naught The common good. Time unto her has brought Her glorious hour, her strength of public will Grown conscious, and a civic soul ...

— Fifteen Chapters of Autobiography • George William Erskine Russell

... for respectability. And you are going to leave the settlement of your claims to your stepdaughter's generosity. You will let her marry Hawkehurst, with her hundred thousand pounds; and then you will say to those two, 'Mr. and Mrs. Hawkehurst, be so kind as to hand over my share of the plunder.' That ...

— Charlotte's Inheritance • M. E. Braddon

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