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plunder::noun | Spocien Dictionary
| Type | Words |
|---|---|
| Synonyms | booty, dirty money, loot, pillage, prize, swag |
| Type of | stolen property |
Examples of plunder
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He beheaded several hundred people, and released his soldiers to plunder freely.
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Another belief was that the righthanded relief depth was deep enough to plunder.
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Portugal and Spain need to discover a New World and plunder its gold and silver.
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Meanwhile, delegates from 20 countries have gathered to try to stop the plunder.
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They surprised the Mongols on their way back to Central Asia with their plunder.
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Any of the current top five would plunder plenty of points from a reserve berth.
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After 1587, the sole object of their successors became plunder, on land and sea.
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Left to their own devices, Big Business and Big Industry will plunder an economy.
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Stacked around his home were the trophies and plunder from 16 years of dominance.
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- Loot: goods or money obtained illegally
- Loot: take illegally; of intellectual property; "This writer plundered from famous authors"
- Sack: plunder (a town) after capture; "the barbarians sacked Rome"
- Steal goods; take as spoils; "During the earthquake people looted the stores that were deserted by their owners"
- Rape: destroy and strip of its possession; "The soldiers raped the beautiful country"
- (plundered) looted: wrongfully emptied or stripped of anything of value; "the robbers left the looted train"; "people returned to the plundered village"
- (plundering) given to taking by force what is desired
- (plundering) the act of stealing valuable things from a place; "the plundering of the Parthenon"; "his plundering of the great authors"
- Looting, also referred to as sacking, ransacking, plundering, despoiling, despoliation, and pillaging, is the indiscriminate taking of goods by force as part of a military or political victory, or during a catastrophe, such as war, natural disaster, or rioting...
