Antonyms for plunder
| Grammar : Noun, verb |
| Spell : pluhn-der |
| Phonetic Transcription : ˈplʌn dər |
Definition of plunder
Origin :- 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.; cf. 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."
- noun something stolen
- verb ravage, steal
- We had hauled our manly tacks aboard, and had no thoughts of plunder.
- Extract from : « Ned Myers » by James Fenimore Cooper
- She had money on board (the plunder of Malta) to the amount of L600,000 sterling.
- Extract from : « The Life of Horatio Lord Nelson » by Robert Southey
- It was profusely strewed with the plunder of that unlucky fortress.
- Extract from : « The Last of the Mohicans » by James Fenimore Cooper
- Nevertheless, the Danes could not plunder England as easily as before.
- Extract from : « Introductory American History » by Henry Eldridge Bourne
- An officer cried directly that he had helped to plunder a house last night.
- Extract from : « Barnaby Rudge » by Charles Dickens
- They provoke no wars, they ravage no countries, they pursue no plunder.
- Extract from : « Tacitus on Germany » by Tacitus
- When the detachment arrived, nothing was left for them but plunder.
- Extract from : « Chronicles of Border Warfare » by Alexander Scott Withers
- They were a family of bandits lying in wait, ready to rifle and plunder.
- Extract from : « The Fortune of the Rougons » by Emile Zola
- Only remembering that if he plunder or brawl, I may have to leave him hanging on the next bush.'
- Extract from : « Two Penniless Princesses » by Charlotte M. Yonge
- He has ridden with them probably, and has had the piper's share of the plunder and whatever else was going.
- Extract from : « The Balladists » by John Geddie
Synonyms for plunder
- appropriate
- booty
- burn
- depredate
- despoil
- devastate
- fleece
- forage
- foray
- goods
- grab
- graft
- gut
- hot goods
- kip
- knock off
- knock over
- lay waste
- liberate
- lift
- loft
- loot
- make
- maraud
- moonlight requisition
- pickings
- pillage
- plunderage
- prey
- prize
- prowl
- quarry
- raid
- ransack
- rapine
- raven
- relieve
- requisition
- rifle
- rip off
- rob
- sack
- salvage
- smash and grab
- snatch
- spoil
- stick up
- strip
- stuff
- take
- trappings
- winnings
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