Plunder
['plʌndə] or ['plʌndɚ]
Definition
(verb.) steal goods; take as spoils; 'During the earthquake people looted the stores that were deserted by their owners'.
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Definition
(v. t.) To take the goods of by force, or without right; to pillage; to spoil; to sack; to strip; to rob; as, to plunder travelers.
(v. t.) To take by pillage; to appropriate forcibly; as, the enemy plundered all the goods they found.
(n.) The act of plundering or pillaging; robbery. See Syn. of Pillage.
(n.) That which is taken by open force from an enemy; pillage; spoil; booty; also, that which is taken by theft or fraud.
(n.) Personal property and effects; baggage or luggage.
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Synonyms and Synonymous
v. a. Pillage, spoil, despoil, rob, rifle, sack, ravage, fleece, strip, lay waste.
n. [1]. Rapine, booty, spoil, pillage, prey.[2]. [Southern and Western U. S.] Baggage, luggage.
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Synonyms and Antonyms
[See PILLAGE]
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Definition
v.t. to seize the goods of another by force: to pillage.—n. that which is seized by force: booty: (U.S.) household goods.—ns. Plun′derage the stealing of goods on board ship; Plun′derer.—adj. Plun′derous.
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Unserious Contents or Definition
v. To take the property of another without observing the decent and customary reticences of theft. To effect a change of ownership with the candid concomitance of a brass band. To wrest the wealth of A from B and leave C lamenting a vanished opportunity.
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Examples
- Alcibiades would like nothing better than an excuse to plunder Melnos. Fergus Hume. The Island of Fantasy.
- They begin to develop a warmer interest in their personal leaders, who secure them pay and plunder. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- The idea was that one of you was to marry her, and the other have a share of the plunder. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Return of Sherlock Holmes.
- You fled to the Continent with your plunder the next morning! Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
- Of course, if they had been merely after plunder they would at least have made some attempt to search for it. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes.
- I never resist a temptation to plunder a stranger's premises without feeling insufferably vain about it. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
- The king relied on his army, and this was usually a mercenary army of foreigners, speedily mutinous if there was no pay or plunder, and easily bribed. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- From what we know of mankind, we are bound to conclude that the first sailors plundered when they could, and traded when they had to. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- The wealth of the burghers never failed to provoke their envy and indignation, and they plundered them upon every occasion without mercy or remorse. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
- Josiah Bounderby of Coketown is not to be plundered and nobody suspected. Charles Dickens. Hard Times.
- Ye have plundered my mails--torn my cope of curious cut lace, which might have served a cardinal! Walter Scott. Ivanhoe.
- The great church of Saint Sophia which Justinian the Great had built (532) was plundered of its treasures and turned at once into a mosque. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- The Anatolian peninsula had been ploughed and harrowed by the Persian armies; the great cities had been plundered and sacked. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- It is certain that he who robs another of his moral reputation, more richly merits a gibbet than if he had plundered him of his purse on the highway. Benjamin Franklin. Memoirs of Benjamin Franklin.
- In 321 A.D. the Goths were again over the Danube, plundering what is now Serbia and Bulgaria. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- All the arguments urged in favour of negro slavery are applied with equal force to justify the plundering and enslaving of Europeans. Benjamin Franklin. Memoirs of Benjamin Franklin.
- The transition to the sport of window-breaking, and thence to the plundering of public-houses, was easy and natural. Charles Dickens. A Tale of Two Cities.
- It was Alexander who was outraging and plundering and enslaving all Thebes. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- Verily, what with tainting, plundering, and spoiling, Tom has his revenge. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
- In each case there was a massacre, the plundering of the city, and the selling of the survivors into slavery. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- Caliphronas is a picturesque freebooter, and simply plunders on a large scale. Fergus Hume. The Island of Fantasy.
- A highwayman is as much a robber when he plunders in a gang as when single; and a nation that makes an unjust war is only a great gang. Benjamin Franklin. Memoirs of Benjamin Franklin.
Editor: Xenia