Plunder

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English

Verb

Plunder (third-person singular simple present Plunders, present participle Plundering, simple past and past participle Plundered)

  1. (transitive) To pillage, take or destroy all the goods of, by force (as in war); to raid, sack.
    The mercenaries plundered the small town.
  2. (intransitive) To take by force or wrongfully; to commit robbery or looting, to raid.
    "Now to plunder, mateys!" screamed a buccaneer, to cries of "Arrgh!" and "Aye!" all around.
    The shopkeep was plundered of his possessions by the burglar.
  3. (transitive) To make extensive (over)use of, as if by plundering; to use or use up wrongfully.
    The miners plundered the jungle for its diamonds till it became a muddy waste.

Derived terms

Noun

Plunder (uncountable)
  1. An instance of plundering
  2. The loot attained by plundering
    The Hessian kept his choicest plunder in a sack that never left his person, for fear that his comrades would steal it.

Adjectives for Plunder

nefarious; hideous; indiscriminate; winged; licentious; accumulated; plentiful; barbarous ; piratical.

Verbs for Plunder

abstain from—; abhor—; acquire—; bag—; commit—; conceal—; convey—; locate—; seize—; share—; smuggle—; submit to—; transfer—; uncover—; —despoils; —ravages ; —strips.

Thesaurus

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

Etymology

Recorded since 1632 (during the Thirty Years War, native British use since the Cromwellian Civil War), from High German Hutterisch plunderen (=modern Dutch) "to plunder," originally "to take away household furniture," from plunder "household goods, clothes" ("lumber, baggage," 14c.); akin to Middle (=present) Dutch plunder "household goods", Frisian and Dutch plunje "clothes".

Pronunciation

Translations

Verb

to take all the goods of, by force (as in war) (transitive)
to take by force or wrongfully
to commit robbery or looting (intransitive)
to use or use up wrongfully
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Noun

instance of plundering
loot attained by plundering

Dutch

Noun

Plunder c. (plural plunders, diminutive plundertje, diminutive plural plundertjes)

  1. One's property, (collective) possessions,
    1. Notably furniture and other (mainly small) home inventory

Synonyms

Derived terms

Verb

Plunder

  1. first-person singular present indicative of plunderen.
  2. imperative of plunderen.

Etymology 1

Germanic, from Middle Dutch, cognate with the other etymology, English to plunder, German plündern and Swedish plundra

Alternative forms

Etymology 2

cognate with the above and English to plunder

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