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Definition of plunder

goods or money obtained illegally
destroy and strip of its possession; "The soldiers raped the beautiful country"
steal goods; take as spoils; "During the earthquake people looted the stores that were deserted by their owners"
plunder (a town) after capture; "the barbarians sacked Rome"
take illegally; of intellectual property; "This writer plundered from famous authors"

Similar Words: loot, booty, pillage, prize, swag, dirty money, rape, spoil, despoil, violate, reave, strip, rifle, ransack, foray, sack

Hyponyms: deplume, displume

Entailments: destroy, ruin

Derivational Morphology: loot, sack, despoil, reave, strip, rifle, ransack, pillage, foray, plundering, pillaging, spoil, spoliation, spoilation, despoilation, despoilment, despoliation, rape, rapine, booty, prize, swag, dirty money, plunderer, pillager, looter, spoiler, despoiler, raider, freebooter, looting, robbery, plunderage

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