plunder Meaning, Definition & Usage

  1. noun goods or money obtained illegally
    swag; booty; prize; pillage; dirty money; loot.
  2. verb take illegally; of intellectual property
    loot.
    • This writer plundered from famous authors
  3. verb plunder (a town) after capture
    sack.
    • the barbarians sacked Rome
  4. verb steal goods; take as spoils
    pillage; strip; despoil; foray; rifle; loot; reave; ransack.
    • During the earthquake people looted the stores that were deserted by their owners
  5. verb destroy and strip of its possession
    violate; spoil; rape; despoil.
    • The soldiers raped the beautiful country

WordNet

Plun"der transitive verb
Etymology
G. plündern to plunder, plunder frippery, baggage.
Wordforms
imperfect & past participle Plundered ; present participle & verbal noun Plundering
Definitions
  1. To take the goods of by force, or without right; to pillage; to spoil; to sack; to strip; to rob; as, to plunder travelers.
    Nebuchadnezzar plunders the temple of God. South.
  2. To take by pillage; to appropriate forcibly; as, the enemy plundered all the goods they found. Syn. -- To pillage; despoil; sack; rifle; strip; rob.
Plun"der noun
Definitions
  1. The act of plundering or pillaging; robbery. See Syn. of Pillage.
    Inroads and plunders of the Saracens. Sir T. North.
  2. That which is taken by open force from an enemy; pillage; spoil; booty; also, that which is taken by theft or fraud. "He shared in the plunder." Cowper.
  3. Personal property and effects; baggage or luggage. Slang, Southwestern U.S.

Webster 1913