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Synonyms for plunder
ˈplʌn dərplun·der

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Princeton's WordNet1.0 / 1 vote

  1. loot, booty, pillage, plunder, prize, swag, dirty moneyverb

    goods or money obtained illegally

    Synonyms:
    shekels, cabbage, dirty money, pillaging, bread, lettuce, swag, prize, sugar, wampum, kale, lucre, clams, trophy, award, gelt, dinero, scratch, boodle, dough, moolah, lolly, plundering, pelf, loot, booty, simoleons, pillage

  2. loot, plunderverb

    take illegally; of intellectual property

    "This writer plundered from famous authors"

    Synonyms:
    violate, rifle, foray, ransack, spoil, sack, loot, despoil, strip, rape, pillage, reave

  3. sack, plunderverb

    plunder (a town) after capture

    "the barbarians sacked Rome"

    Synonyms:
    ransack, send away, spoil, violate, foray, pillage, reave, give notice, sack, sack up, clear, give the sack, force out, rifle, dismiss, displace, can, rape, despoil, strip, net, loot, terminate, give the axe, fire

  4. plunder, despoil, loot, reave, strip, rifle, ransack, pillage, forayverb

    steal goods; take as spoils

    "During the earthquake people looted the stores that were deserted by their owners"

    Synonyms:
    foray, comb, disrobe, spoil, clean, discase, leach, rape, divest, violate, sack, dismantle, strip, unclothe, undress, reave, rifle, denude, uncase, denudate, strip down, despoil, go, ransack, loot, deprive, peel, bare, pillage, disinvest

  5. rape, spoil, despoil, violate, plunderverb

    destroy and strip of its possession

    "The soldiers raped the beautiful country"

    Synonyms:
    baffle, pamper, frustrate, scotch, botch, foray, bilk, dishonour, itch, bungle, rifle, ravish, muck up, dishonor, mishandle, bumble, botch up, foil, blow, go bad, screw up, pillage, transgress, fumble, vitiate, flub, rape, baby, impair, ball up, featherbed, bollocks up, loot, break, desecrate, despoil, bodge, mess up, sack, deflower, offend, thwart, louse up, breach, go against, mar, indulge, spoil, muff, violate, infract, strip, outrage, cocker, foul up, ransack, cross, fluff, assault, mollycoddle, bobble, profane, reave, coddle, bollix up, cosset, bollix, corrupt, bollocks

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Dictionary of English Synonymes0.0 / 0 votes

  1. plunderverb

    Synonyms:
    pillage, spoil, despoil, rob, rifle, sack, ravage, fleece, strip, lay waste

  2. plundernoun

    Synonyms:
    rapine, booty, spoil, pillage, prey

  3. plundernoun

    Synonyms:
    [Southern and Western U. S.] baggage, luggage

Synonyms, Antonyms & Associated Words0.0 / 0 votes

  1. plundernoun

    Synonyms:
    booty, spoil, loot, pillage, robbery

  2. plunderverb

    Synonyms:
    pillage, loot, rob

PPDB, the paraphrase database0.0 / 0 votes

  1. List of paraphrases for "plunder":

    looting, plundering, pillage, pillaging, loot, looted, depredation, booty

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How to use plunder in a sentence?

  1. Charley Reese:

    If you look at Washington, you see permanently camped on the banks of the Potomac spread around in concentric circles an army representing thousands of selfish interests. The sole purpose of their presence is to plunder, by hook or crook, the public treasury for the benefit of their particular people or corporations.

  2. Tacitus:

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

  3. Sean Keegan:

    This new law will precipitate an environmental crisis by opening the flood gates to unfettered commercialization by wealthy and well-connected offshore investors who will plunder what is left of this fragile paradise.

  4. Marvin Cooley:

    I will no longer pay for the destruction of my country, family, and self. Damn tyranny! Damn the Federal Reserve liars and thieves! Damn all pettifogging, oath-breaking US attorneys and judges.… I will see you all in hell and shed my blood before I will be robbed of one more dollar to finance a national policy of treason, plunder, and corruption.

  5. Horace:

    The years as they pass plunder us of one thing after another.


Translations for plunder

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  • نهبArabic
  • lup, vyplenit, kořist, loupitCzech
  • Raubgut, ausplündern, ausbeuten, Beute, Plünderung, plündernGerman
  • λεία, λεηλατώ, κούρσεμα, λεηλασία, διαγούμισμα, κουρσεύω, καταληστεύω, πλιάτσικο, λαφυραγώγηση, λάφυρα, πλιατσικολογώ, διαγουμίζω, λαφυραγωγώGreek
  • saquear, botín, saqueoSpanish
  • ryöstö, ryöstösaalis, ryöstääFinnish
  • piller, pillageFrench
  • creachScottish Gaelic
  • fosztogat, kifoszt, kirabol, zsákmányHungarian
  • ավար, թալանArmenian
  • menjarahIndonesian
  • rapinare, razziare, predare, bottino, saccheggio, fare man bassa, fare piazza pulita, depredare, saccheggiare, saccoItalian
  • 略奪Japanese
  • praedoLatin
  • tūkuku, mūrei, hui, whakarekereke, pāhue, pāhuahua, pāhuaMāori
  • plyndre, plyndring, bytteNorwegian
  • plunderen, leegroven, roven, plunderbuit, opgebruiken, plundering, brandschatting, brandschatten, buit, uitputtenDutch
  • bytte, plyndre, plyndringNorwegian Nynorsk
  • plyndringNorwegian
  • saquear, pilhar, butim, saque, pilhagemPortuguese
  • pradăRomanian
  • грабёж, грабить, разграбление, трофей, награбленное добро, добычаRussian
  • плен, плијенSerbo-Croatian
  • plundra, plundringSwedish
  • piyî, haper, branscater, forsipoujhîWalloon

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