Plunder Definition

plŭndər
plundered, plundering, plunders
verb
plundered, plundering, plunders
To engage in plundering.
Webster's New World
To rob or despoil (a person or place) by force, esp. in warfare.
Webster's New World
To take (property) by force or fraud.
Webster's New World
To take booty; rob.
American Heritage

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.
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noun
plunders
The act of plundering; pillage; robbery.
Webster's New World
Goods taken by force or fraud; loot; booty.
Webster's New World
Personal belongings or household furnishings.
Webster's New World

(slang, dated) Baggage; luggage.

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Origin of Plunder

  • Recorded since 1632 (during the Thirty Years War, native British use since the Cromwellian Civil War), from Hutterisch plunderen (“to plunder, originally "to take away household furniture"") (Dutch plunderen) from plunder (“household goods, clothes; lumber, baggage"); akin to Middle Dutch plunder (“household goods"), West Frisian plunje and Dutch plunje (“clothes").

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  • German plündern from Middle High German plundern from Middle Low German plunder household goods

    From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition

Plunder Sentence Examples

  • Athenion sent him with some troops to Delos, to plunder the treasures of the temple, but he showed little military capacity.

  • He was even charged with plotting with his Epirot ally to plunder Delphi.

  • Here as at Tarutino they went after plunder, leaving the men.

  • As a rule they are orderly and law-abiding, but traditions of plunder have been handed down to them from early times, and many of them retain the predatory instincts of their forefathers.

  • The Gauls returned home with their plunder, leaving Rome in a condition from which she took long to recover.

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