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Definition of Plunder

Plunder

  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.
  2. To take by pillage; to appropriate forcibly; as, the enemy plundered all the goods they found.
  3. The act of plundering or pillaging; robbery. See Syn. of Pillage.
  4. That which is taken by open force from an enemy; pillage; spoil; booty; also, that which is taken by theft or fraud.
  5. Personal property and effects; baggage or luggage.

Plunder Quotations

To tax the community for the advantage of a class is not protection: it is plunder.
Benjamin Disraeli

Alliance - in international politics, the union of two thieves who have their hands so deeply inserted in each other's pockets that they cannot separately plunder a third.
Ambrose Bierce

To plunder, to slaughter, to steal, these things they misname empire; and where they make a wilderness, they call it peace.
Tacitus

Surely the best way to meet the enemy is head on in the field and not wait till they plunder our very homes.
Oliver Goldsmith

Support a compatriot against a native, however the former may blunder or plunder.
Richard Francis Burton
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Plunder Translations

plunder in Danish is plyndre
plunder in Dutch is plunderen, buitmaken, stropen, roven
plunder in French is pillons, piller, ravir, pillez, pillent
plunder in Latin is diripio, praeda, spolio, everro, spolium
plunder in Portuguese is roubar, pilhagem
plunder in Spanish is pillaje
plunder in Swedish is byte, plundring, plundra

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