Definition of Plunder

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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.

To take by pillage; to appropriate forcibly; as, the enemy plundered all the goods they found.

The act of plundering or pillaging; robbery. See Syn. of Pillage.

That which is taken by open force from an enemy; pillage; spoil; booty; also, that which is taken by theft or fraud.

Personal property and effects; baggage or luggage.

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Plunder Quotations

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

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

I want it understood that all these men fought for principle, not for plunder, and that they were true-hearted, honorable soldiers, fighting for what they esteemed was a righteous cause.
Cole Younger

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

Not addicted to gluttony or drunkenness, this people who incur no expense in food or dress, and whose minds are always bent upon the defence of their country, and on the means of plunder, are wholly employed in the care of their horses and furniture.
Giraldus Cambrensis

I think in a sense this is a house that was built on a bad foundation. And the foundation was the Americans coming here and allowing the sacking, burning and plunder of Baghdad, for whatever reason.
Jon Lee Anderson

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

The roads are filled with armed robbers, and murders for mere plunder are of daily occurrence.
John White Geary

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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