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[1] : The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
plunder \plun"der\, v. t. imp.  p. p. plundered; p. pr. 
   vb. n. plundering. g. pl"undern 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.
      1913 webster

            nebuchadnezzar plunders the temple of god. --south.
      1913 webster

   2. to take by pillage; to appropriate forcibly; as, the enemy
      plundered all the goods they found.
      1913 webster

   syn: to pillage; despoil; sack; rifle; strip; rob.
        1913 webster
see also:
plundered plundering 
[2] : The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
plunder \plun"der\, n.
   1. the act of plundering or pillaging; robbery. see syn. of
      pillage.
      1913 webster

            inroads and plunders of the saracens. --sir t.
                                                  north.
      1913 webster

   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.
      1913 webster

   3. personal property and effects; baggage or luggage. slang,
      southwestern u.s.
      1913 webster
see also:
pillage 
[3] : WordNet (r) 2.0
plunder
     n : goods or money obtained illegally syn: loot, booty, pillage,
          prize, swag, dirty money
     v 1: take illegally; of intellectual property; "this writer
          plundered from famous authors" syn: loot
     2: plunder a town after capture; "the barbarians sacked rome"
        syn: sack
     3: steal goods; take as spoils; "during the earthquake people
        looted the stores that were deserted by their owners"
        syn: despoil, loot, reave, strip, rifle, ransack,
         pillage, foray
     4: destroy and strip of its possession; "the soldiers raped the
        beautiful country" syn: rape, spoil, despoil, violate
see also:
loot booty pillage prize swag dirty money 
sack despoil reave strip rifle 
ransack foray rape spoil violate 

[4] : Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0
88 moby thesaurus words for "plunder":
   banditry, blackmail, boodle, booty, brigandage, brigandism,
   capture, depredate, depredation, desolate, despoil, despoiling,
   despoilment, despoliation, devastate, direption, fleece, forage,
   foraging, foray, freeboot, freebooting, graft, gut, haul,
   hot goods, knock off, knock over, lay waste, loot, looting, maraud,
   marauding, perks, perquisite, pickings, pillage, pillaging, pirate,
   plundering, pork barrel, prey on, prize, public till,
   public trough, raid, raiding, ransack, ransacking, rape, rapine,
   ravage, ravagement, ravaging, raven, ravish, ravishment, razzia,
   reive, reiving, relieve, rifle, rifling, rob, robbery, sack,
   sacking, seize, spoil, spoiling, spoils, spoils of office,
   spoliate, spoliation, squeeze, stealings, stick up, stolen goods,
   strip, swag, sweep, take, things, till, traps, tricks, vandalism,
   vandalize




[5] : THE DEVIL'S DICTIONARY ((C)1911 Released April 15 1993)
plunder, v.  to take the property of another without observing the
decent and customary reticences of theft.  to effect a change of
ownership with the candid concomitance of a brass band.  to wrest the
wealth of a from b and leave c lamenting a vanishing opportunity.




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