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Wordnet 3.0

NOUN (1)

1. the act of stealing valuable things from a place;
- Example: "the plundering of the Parthenon"
- Example: "his plundering of the great authors"
[syn: plundering, pillage, pillaging]


ADJECTIVE (1)

1. given to taking by force what is desired;


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["u]ndern 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]
WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):

plundering adj 1: given to taking by force what is desired n 1: the act of stealing valuable things from a place; "the plundering of the Parthenon"; "his plundering of the great authors" [syn: plundering, pillage, pillaging]
Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0:

36 Moby Thesaurus words for "plundering": banditry, brigandage, brigandism, depredation, despoiling, despoilment, despoliation, direption, foraging, foray, freebooting, looting, marauding, pillage, pillaging, plunder, plunderous, predacious, predatory, raid, raiding, ransacking, rape, rapine, ravage, ravagement, ravaging, ravishment, razzia, reiving, rifling, sack, sacking, spoiling, spoliation, spoliatory