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 Definitions of Plunder  [ˈplʌn dər]  

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Definition of 'Plunder' Random House Webster's College Dictionary 

1. (v.t.) plunder
to rob of goods or valuables by open force, as in war:
to plunder a town.

2.  plunder
to rob or fleece:
to plunder the public treasury.

3.  plunder
to take by pillage, robbery, or fraud.

4. (v.i.) plunder
to take plunder; pillage.

5. (n.) plunder
plundering or pillage.

6.  plunder
that which is taken in plundering; loot.

7.  plunder
anything taken by robbery, theft, or fraud.

Etymology:  (1620–30; < D plunderen)

Definition of 'Plunder' Princeton's WordNet 

1. (verb) loot, booty, pillage, plunder, prize, swag, dirty money
goods or money obtained illegally

2. (verb) loot, plunder
take illegally; of intellectual property
"This writer plundered from famous authors"

3. (verb) sack, plunder
plunder (a town) after capture
"the barbarians sacked Rome"

4. (verb) plunder, despoil, loot, reave, strip, rifle, ransack, pillage, foray
steal goods; take as spoils
"During the earthquake people looted the stores that were deserted by their owners"

5. (verb) rape, spoil, despoil, violate, plunder
destroy and strip of its possession
"The soldiers raped the beautiful country"


Definition of 'Plunder' Webster Dictionary 

1. (noun) Plunder
the act of plundering or pillaging; robbery. See Syn. of Pillage

2. (noun) Plunder
that which is taken by open force from an enemy; pillage; spoil; booty; also, that which is taken by theft or fraud

3. (noun) Plunder
personal property and effects; baggage or luggage

4. (verb) Plunder
to take the goods of by force, or without right; to pillage; to spoil; to sack; to strip; to rob; as, to plunder travelers

5. (verb) Plunder
to take by pillage; to appropriate forcibly; as, the enemy plundered all the goods they found


Translation of 'Plunder' Kernerman English Multilingual Dictionary 

Sense: to rob or steal from (a place)
The soldiers plundered and looted (the city).

Afrikaans flag Afrikaans: plunder Arabic flag Arabic: يَسْلُب، يَنْهَب Bulgarian flag Bulgarian: плячкосвам
Brazilian flag Brazilian: saquear Czech flag Czech: (vy)plenit German flag German: plündern
Danish flag Danish: plyndre Greek flag Greek: λεηλατώ Spanish flag Spanish: saquear, pillar
Estonian flag Estonian: röövima Farsi flag Farsi: غارت کردن Finnish flag Finnish: ryöstää
French flag French: piller Hebrew flag Hebrew: לִבזוֹז Hindi flag Hindi: लूटना
Croatian flag Croatian: krađa, pljačka Hungarian flag Hungarian: kifoszt, fosztogat Indonesian flag Indonesian: menjarah
Icelandic flag Icelandic: ræna Italian flag Italian: saccheggiare Japanese flag Japanese: 略奪する
Korean flag Korean: 약탈하다 Lithuanian flag Lithuanian: grobti, plėšti Latvian flag Latvian: []laupīt
Malay flag Malay: merampas Dutch flag Dutch: plunderen Norwegian flag Norwegian: plyndre, røve
Polish flag Polish: grabić Persian flag Persian: غارت کردن Pashto flag Pashto: غارت كول، لوټ كول
Portuguese flag Portuguese: saquear Romanian flag Romanian: a prăda Russian flag Russian: грабить; воровать
Slovak flag Slovak: (vy)plieniť Slovenian flag Slovenian: pleniti Serbian flag Serbian: opljačkati
Swedish flag Swedish: plundra Thai flag Thai: ปล้น Turkish flag Turkish: yağmalamak
Taiwanese flag Taiwanese: 搶劫 Ukrainian flag Ukrainian: грабувати; розкрадати Urdu flag Urdu: لوٹنا، تاراج کرنا
Vietnamese flag Vietnamese: cướp bóc Chinese flag Chinese: 抢劫

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