Definition of "plunder"

plunder

/ˈplʌndə/

verb
third-person singular simple present plunders, present participle plundering, simple past and past participle plundered
1. (transitive) To pillage, take or destroy all the goods of, by force (as in war); to raid, sack.
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  Now Azaēlos, the king of Syria, made war on the Israelites and their king Jehu, and ravaged the eastern parts of the country across the Jordan […] spreading fire everywhere and plundering everything and inflicting violence on all who fell into his hands.
  1937, Josephus, Ralph Marcus, transl., chapter VIII, in Josephus: With an English Translation (Loeb Classical Library), volume VI (Jewish Antiquities), London: William Heinemann Ltd.; Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, published 1958, book IX, paragraph 1, page 87
2. (transitive) To take (goods) by pillage.
3. (intransitive) To take by force or wrongfully; to commit robbery or looting, to raid.
4. (transitive) To make extensive (over)use of, as if by plundering; to use or use up wrongfully.
5. (transitive) To take unexpectedly.
  Quotations
  The Serb teed up Steve Davis, who crossed low for Graziano Pellè to plunder his fifth league goal of the campaign.
  2014 October 18, Paul Doyle, “Southampton hammer eight past hapless Sunderland in barmy encounter”, in The Guardian
noun
uncountable
1. An instance of plundering.
2. The loot attained by plundering.
3. (slang, dated) Baggage; luggage.
  Quotations
  […] till a long-legged boy brought him out of his revery, by an offer to carry his “plunder,” in whatsoever direction he might desire to direct his steps.
  1880, The Peterson Magazine, volumes 77-78, page 215

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