Plunder

Verb

 * 1)  To pillage, take or destroy all the goods of, by force (as in war); to raid, sack.
 * ''The mercenaries plundered the small town.
 * 1)  To take by force or wrongfully; to commit robbery or looting, to raid.
 * ''"Now to plunder, mateys!" screamed a buccaneer, to cries of "Arrgh!" and "Aye!" all around.
 * The shopkeep was plundered of his possessions by the burglar.
 * 1)  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.

Derived terms

 * plunderable
 * plunderage
 * plunderer
 * plunderous

Noun

 * 1) An instance of plundering
 * 2) The loot attained by plundering
 * ''The Hessian kept his choicest plunder in a sack that never left his person, for fear that his comrades would steal it.

Adjectives for Plunder
nefarious; hideous; indiscriminate; winged; licentious; accumulated; plentiful; barbarous ; piratical.

Verbs for Plunder
abstain from—; abhor—; acquire—; bag—; commit—; conceal—; convey—; locate—; seize—; share—; smuggle—; submit to—; transfer—; uncover—; —despoils; —ravages ; —strips.

Thesaurus
banditry, blackmail, boodle, booty, brigandage, brigandism, capture, depredate, depredation, desolate, despoil, despoiling, despoilment, despoliation, devastate, direption, fleece, forage, foraging, foray, freeboot, freebooting, graft, gut, haul, hot goods, knock off, knock over, lay waste, loot, looting, maraud, marauding, perks, perquisite, pickings, pillage, pillaging, pirate, plundering, pork barrel, prey on, prize, public till, public trough, raid, raiding, ransack, ransacking, rape, rapine, ravage, ravagement, ravaging, raven, ravish, ravishment, razzia, reive, reiving, relieve, rifle, rifling, rob, robbery, sack, sacking, seize, spoil, spoiling, spoils, spoils of office, spoliate, spoliation, squeeze, stealings, stick up, stolen goods, strip, swag, sweep, take, things, till, traps, tricks, vandalism, vandalize

Etymology
Recorded since 1632 (during the Thirty Years War, native British use since the Cromwellian Civil War), from High German plunderen (=modern Dutch) "to plunder," originally "to take away household furniture," from plunder "household goods, clothes" ("lumber, baggage," 14c.); akin to Middle (=present) Dutch plunder "household goods", Frisian and Dutch plunje "clothes".

Verb

 * Czech: vyplenit
 * Dutch: ,
 * French:
 * German:
 * Hungarian:
 * Indonesian: menjarah


 * Italian:, ,
 * Latin: praedo
 * Portuguese: ,
 * Romanian:
 * Scottish Gaelic:
 * Spanish:
 * Swedish:


 * Czech: loupit
 * Dutch: ,
 * German:


 * Hungarian:
 * Scottish Gaelic:
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 * Dutch: ,
 * German:
 * Hungarian: kirabol


 * Italian:
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 * Dutch: plunderen, leegroven, opgebruiken, uitputten
 * German: ausbeuten, ausplündern


 * Hungarian:
 * Spanish:


 * : piller, ravager

Noun

 * Dutch: plundering, brandschatting
 * French:


 * Italian:


 * Armenian: ավար, թալան
 * Old Armenian: ,
 * Czech: ,
 * Dutch: buit, plunderbuit


 * German: Beute, Raubgut
 * Hungarian:
 * Italian:
 * Romanian:
 * Scottish Gaelic:
 * Spanish: ,

Noun

 * 1) One's property, (collective) possessions,
 * 2) Notably furniture and other (mainly small) home inventory

Synonyms

 * have (en goed), huisraad

Derived terms

 * plunderage
 * geplunderd (adjective)
 * plunderij
 * plunderbroek
 * plunderkamer
 * plundermarkt
 * plundermelk
 * plunderzolder
 * bedelaarsplunder ?

Etymology 1
Germanic, from, cognate with the other etymology, English to plunder, German plündern and Swedish plundra

Alternative forms

 * plonder (obsolete)

Etymology 2
cognate with the above and English to plunder