PLUNDERED

looted, pillaged, plundered, ransacked

(adjective) wrongfully emptied or stripped of anything of value; ā€œthe robbers left the looted trainā€; ā€œpeople returned to the plundered villageā€

Source: WordNet® 3.1


Verb

plundered

simple past tense and past participle of plunder

Source: Wiktionary


PLUNDER

Plun"der, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Plundered; p. pr. & vb. n. Plundering.] Etym: [G. plĆ¼ndern 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.

Plun"der, n.

1. The act of plundering or pillaging; robbery. See Syn. of Pillage. Inroads and plunders of the Saracens. Sir T. North.

2. 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.

3. Personal property and effects; baggage or luggage. [Slang, Southwestern U.S.]

Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition



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