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Plundering

Plunder \Plun"der\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Plundered; p. pr. & vb. n. Plundering.] [G. pl["u]ndern to plunder, plunder frippery, baggage.]

  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.

    Nebuchadnezzar plunders the temple of God.
    --South.

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

    Syn: To pillage; despoil; sack; rifle; strip; rob.

Wiktionary
plundering

n. The act of one who plunders; pillaging or looting; plunder. vb. (present participle of plunder English)

WordNet
plundering
  1. adj. given to taking by force what is desired

  2. n. the act of stealing valuable things from a place; "the plundering of the Parthenon"; "his plundering of the great authors" [syn: pillage, pillaging]

Usage examples of "plundering".

For a council was called to settle what was best and most expedient to be done, in order to repel such frequent and fatal irruptions and plunderings of the above-named nations.

For instance, by way of illustration, I would venture to hazard that the cycle of your life thus far has been one unbroken sequence of the most appalling parasitisms and loathsome plunderings of other beings.

Conan had handled many coins in the years of his plunderings, and had a good practical knowledge of them.

Even after the Ousters acquired the Hawking drive, it remained official Hegemony policy to ignore them as long as their swarms stayed in the darkness between the stars and limited their in-system plunderings to scooping small amounts of hydrogen from gas giants and water ice from uninhabited moons.