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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Plunder \Plun"der\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Plundered; p. pr. & vb. n. Plundering.] [G. pl["u]ndern to plunder, plunder frippery, baggage.]
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To take the goods of by force, or without right; to pillage; to spoil; to sack; to strip; to rob; as, to plunder travelers.
Nebuchadnezzar plunders the temple of God.
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To take by pillage; to appropriate forcibly; as, the enemy plundered all the goods they found.
Syn: To pillage; despoil; sack; rifle; strip; rob.
Plunder \Plun"der\, n.
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The act of plundering or pillaging; robbery. See Syn. of Pillage.
Inroads and plunders of the Saracens.
--Sir T. North. 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.Personal property and effects; baggage or luggage. [Slang, Southwestern U.S.]
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
"goods taken by force; act of plundering," 1640s, from plunder (v.).
1630s, from German plündern, from Middle High German plunderen "to plunder," originally "to take away household furniture," from plunder (n.) "household goods, clothes," also "lumber, baggage" (14c.; compare Modern German Plunder "lumber, trash"), which is related to Middle Dutch plunder "household goods;" Frisian and Dutch plunje "clothes." A word acquired by English via the Thirty Years War and applied in native use after the outbreak of the English Civil War in 1642. Related: Plundered; plundering. Plunderbund was a U.S. colloquial word from 1914 referring to "a corrupt alliance of corporate and financial interests," with German Bund "alliance, league."
Wiktionary
n. 1 An instance of plundering 2 The loot attained by plundering 3 (context slang dated English) baggage; luggage vb. 1 (context transitive English) To pillage, take or destroy all the goods of, by force (as in war); to raid, sack. 2 (context transitive English) To take (goods) by pillage. 3 (context intransitive English) To take by force or wrongfully; to commit robbery or looting, to raid. 4 (context transitive English) To make extensive (over)use of, as if by plundering; to use or use up wrongfully. 5 (rfdef: English)
WordNet
n. goods or money obtained illegally [syn: loot, booty, pillage, prize, swag, dirty money]
v. take illegally; of intellectual property; "This writer plundered from famous authors" [syn: loot]
plunder (a town) after capture; "the barbarians sacked Rome" [syn: sack]
steal goods; take as spoils; "During the earthquake people looted the stores that were deserted by their owners" [syn: despoil, loot, reave, strip, rifle, ransack, pillage, foray]
destroy and strip of its possession; "The soldiers raped the beautiful country" [syn: rape, spoil, despoil, violate]
Wikipedia
To plunder is to indiscriminately take goods by force.
Plunder may also refer to:
- Plunder (serial), a 1923 film serial
- Plunder (play), a 1928 stage farce by Ben Travers
- Plunder (1931 film), a British comedy film, based on the stage play, above
- Looten Plunder, a villain in the television program Captain Planet and the Planeteers
- Operation Plunder, a World War II operation
- Stevie Plunder (1963–1996), guitarist, singer, and songwriter
- Plunder, 1948 novel by Samuel Hopkins Adams
Plunder is a 1923 American drama film serial directed by George B. Seitz. During the production of this serial, on August 10, 1922, John Stevenson, a stuntman for Pearl White, was killed doing a stunt from a moving bus to an elevated platform. The film survives in the UCLA Film and Television Archive and a trailer is preserved at the Library of Congress.
Plunder ( 1931) is a British comedy film directed by and starring Tom Walls. It also features Ralph Lynn, Winifred Shotter and Robertson Hare. It was based on the original stage farce of the same title, and was the second in a series of film adaptations of Aldwych farces by Ben Travers, adapted in this case by W. P. Lipscomb, and was a major critical and commercial success helping to cement Walls's position as one of the leading stars of British cinema.
Plunder is a farce by the English playwright Ben Travers. It was first given at the Aldwych Theatre, London, the fifth in the series of twelve Aldwych farces presented by the actor-manager Tom Walls at the theatre between 1923 and 1933. Several of the actors formed a regular core cast for the Aldwych farces. The play shows two friends committing a jewel robbery, for arguably honourable reasons, with fatal results.
The piece opened on 26 June 1928 and ran for 344 performances. Travers made a film adaptation, which Walls directed in 1933, with most of the leading members of the stage cast reprising their roles.
Usage examples of "plunder".
While one of the candidates boasted the honors of his family, a second allured his judges by the delicacies of a plentiful table, and a third, more guilty than his rivals, offered to share the plunder of the church among the accomplices of his sacrilegious hopes.
The infantry was a half-armed, spiritless crowd of peasants, levied in haste by the allurements of plunder, and as easily dispersed by a victory as by a defeat.
If you were not all skunks and cowards youd be suffering with them instead of battening here on the plunder of the poor.
Rather than the hot meal and sleep the weary soldiers had been looking forward to, they settled for filthy water, what few remains of stale bread had survived the plundering, and a blanketless rest on the hard ground.
Not long afterwards, as Beleg had feared, the Orcs came across the Brithiach, and being resisted with all the force that he could muster by Handir of Brethil they passed south over the Crossings of Teiglin in search of plunder.
He faced unwillingly the whole frightening extent of the plundering of the brewery and approved of the appointment of Margaret Morden as captain of the lifeboat to save the wreck.
He had thrown off his steel cap and his brigandine, and had placed them with his sword, his quiver and his painted long-bow, on the top of his varied heap of plunder in the corner.
They refused to rise in his support, and quickly grew to hate his soldiers, who, being of different nations, most of them brigandish soldiers of fortune, began by quarrelling with one another, and ended by plundering the country.
The price of provisions, and bread in particular, being raised to an exorbitant rate in consequence of an absurd exportation of corn, for the sake of the bounty, a formidable body of colliers, and other labouring people, raised an insurrection at Bristol, began to plunder the corn vessels in the harbour, and commit such outrages in the city, that the magistrates were obliged to have recourse to military power.
The whole affair was degenerating into a riot of plunder when the cry went up that Mors had been found.
The remains of the vessels they plundered were never found, the able-bodied among the crew and passengers sold as slaves in a variety of ports around the world, most especially in the diamond fields of lower Heraat in the Great Overward, and the gladiatorial arenas of Sorbold.
As pastoralists and nomads they always moved on, seeking grazing for their herds, more plunder and women.
Though Partridge was one of the most superstitious of men, he would hardly perhaps have desired to accompany Jones on his expedition merely from the omens of the joint-stool and white mare, if his prospect had been no better than to have shared the plunder gained in the field of battle.
But that does not entitle us to believe they were part of some carefully planned, drawn-out conspiracy to plunder the Metelli, its plot put together at wine bars in a porticus over several years.
Sometimes a few men would win all the plunder of the cruise, much to the disgust of the majority, who clamoured for a redivision of the spoil.