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Meaning plunder meaning

What does plunder mean?

plunder

— verb take illegally; of intellectual property This writer plundered from famous authors — noun (= loot) goods or money obtained illegally — verb (= loot) steal goods; take as spoils During the earthquake people looted the stores that were deserted by their owners — verb (= sack) plunder (a town) after capture the barbarians sacked Rome — verb (= rape) destroy and strip of its possession The soldiers raped the beautiful country

Synonyms plunder synonyms

What other words have the same or similar meaning as plunder?

plunder English » English

pillage rob loot steal booty spoil sack despoil ransack robbery ravage looting spoils raid depredation strip snatch seizure foray swag reave rapine prize pilfer capture rape prey maraud kill fleece extortion dirty money destroy carry off burgle violate take by force spoliation seize robbing rifle ravishment raven prey upon pirate output marauding hership harry grab

Topics plunder topics

What do people use plunder to talk about?
Social behavior Conflict War

Plunder
Work and occupation Finance Dishonest financial practices

Take by force

Conjugation plunder conjugation

How do you conjugate plunder?

plunder · verb

Examples plunder examples

How do I use plunder in a sentence?

Movie subtitles

You may not plunder another Christian.
A prince of plunder.
No foe will tread over Russia, no foreign army will plunder it.
To achieve, not to plunder.
What plunder.
Neither I nor my friends lack bows and spears. and if the people lack goods, which you plunder. they do not lack anger nor courage.
Just gonna pile up your plunder and skip.
Either return with them to his native country or worse still, lead them to plunder my precious possessions.
Highness, the Hussites plunder and burn our monasteries and expel all those loyal to Rome.
Stop this or lose your Trojan plunder.
Helen, through you, we have learned that they seek plunder, not justice.
While the Greeks plunder, make for the north gate.
Thus, when the Vikings set forth to rob and plunder England. they never sailed out of sight of land.
George, take your plunder and get out of here.
The Emperor asked me to tell you that we didn't come to Algeria to oppress or plunder, but to bring you the blessings of civilization.
Those nor any other plunder gotten by a thief and pirate.
Our robberies are petty compared to the wholesale plunder of the nation.
Quick, hide this plunder. - Plunder?
The reason is a puny rock-bound island as barren and treacherous as her queen. who secretly gives aid to our enemies while her pirates plunder our commerce.
His forbearance when our privateers harass his commerce. and plunder his possessions.
The Captain wishes to justify what, in plain words. is a desire for plunder with no respect for the interests of Spain.
Within three months, a year's plunder in gold leaves Panama, bound for Spain.
Our plunder would be the richest prize ever brought back to England.
Then this pirate is free again to plunder where he chooses, in spite of the Queen.
I took part in the plunder of Holland and France.
Your China Sea pirates have been dragging their plunder in here. and stripping it for years.
While Kim was carrying the message to Colonel Creighton. that gentleman, as head of the British-lndian Secret Service. was receiving disturbing reports from his agents. Reports that warned of bloodshed and plunder.
Plunder from defeated warriors.
To plunder and destroy?
The plunder alone will justify the struggle.
They murder, they rape, they plunder churches together with the Tartars.
He took plunder that was rightfully ours, and we mean to get it back, and you may lay to that.
Aye, Captain, plunder the inn, the village, and the Squire's fine hall.
They plunder, they kill my father, and talk of generosity to a foe.
And you, by coming here, have crossed the boundary into that other universe to plunder it.
Do you not see how my heart burns for the dangerous liberty of the skies, plunder, battle and escape?
And they persuaded you with a view. that you might reconcile differences and not plunder them.
Once a haven for barbaric plunder, Ehdan had been transformed into a prospering civilized nation by the wise and strong king Richard.

News and current affairs

The truth is that he used a negotiated hostility with Slobodan Milosevic to solidify personal rule and a Russian-style plunder of state properties by his coterie of loyalists.
The only rational reason for the CFA franc's existence is connivance between France and the governing elites of its former colonies in order to plunder the franc zone states.
Now, public opinion is starting to turn against what is increasingly perceived as plunder on a global scale.
The country remains impoverished, ethnically divided, and with collapsed social services after years of military-led corruption and plunder.
What is worse, when privatization was rushed through, the result was massive corruption, managerial plunder, and paralysis at the firm level.
For as Kuchma's government mouths its platitudes, its cronies loot the national patrimony, handing it over to family and friends while they desecrate, plunder and sell the nation's independence to the highest bidder.
Russia cannot withstand another four years of plunder and destruction.
Democracy may come to Iraq, and the will of the people will be to stop the plunder of their country's natural resources by US crony capitalists.
Estrada literally defined plunder: as a senator in the early 1990's, he was a member of the congress that crafted the law under which he was convicted.
It deserves the attention and support of all those who seek a better future for a vast country that has long endured plunder and misrule.

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