(v) steal goods; take as spoils, Syn.loot, strip, pillage, reave, rifle, ransack, despoil, foray, Example: During the earthquake people looted the stores that were deserted by their owners
(n) the act of stealing valuable things from a place, Syn.pillaging, pillage, Example: the plundering of the Parthenon; his plundering of the great authors
v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Plundered p. pr. & vb. n. Plundering. ] [ G. plündern to plunder, plunder frippery, baggage. ] 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. [ 1913 Webster ]
Nebuchadnezzar plunders the temple of God. South. [ 1913 Webster ]
2. To take by pillage; to appropriate forcibly; as, the enemy plundered all the goods they found. [ 1913 Webster ]
n. 1. The act of plundering or pillaging; robbery. See Syn. of Pillage. [ 1913 Webster ]
Inroads and plunders of the Saracens. Sir T. North. [ 1913 Webster ]
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. [ 1913 Webster ]
3. Personal property and effects; baggage or luggage. [ Slang, Southwestern U.S. ] [ 1913 Webster ]
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