plunder
noun
1. goods or money obtained illegally
Similar word(s): booty, loot, pillage, prize, swag
Definition categories: possession
Sentences with plunder as a noun:
- The Hessian kept his choicest plunder in a sack that never left his person, for fear that his comrades would steal it.
verb
1. take illegally; of intellectual property
- This writer plundered from famous authors
Similar word(s): loot
Definition categories: possession, rip, steal
2. plunder (a town) after capture
Similar word(s): sack
Definition categories: possession, take
3. steal goods; take as spoils
Similar word(s): despoil, foray, loot, pillage, ransack, reave, rifle, strip
Definition categories: possession, take
4. destroy and strip of its possession
Similar word(s): despoil, rape, spoil, violate
Definition categories: contact, destroy, ruin
Sentences with plunder as a verb:
- The mercenaries plundered the small town.
- The shopkeeper was plundered of his possessions by the burglar.
- The mercenaries plundered all the goods they found.
- "Now to plunder, mateys!" screamed a buccaneer, to cries of "Arrgh!" and "Aye!" all around.
- The miners plundered the jungle for its diamonds till it became a muddy waste.