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Antonyms for plunder
ˈplʌn dərplun·der
This page is about all possible antonyms and opposite words for the term plunder.
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loot, booty, pillage, plunder, prize, swag, dirty moneyverb
goods or money obtained illegally
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shekels, cabbage, dirty money, pillaging, bread, lettuce, swag, prize, sugar, wampum, kale, lucre, clams, trophy, award, gelt, dinero, scratch, boodle, dough, moolah, lolly, plundering, pelf, loot, booty, simoleons, pillageloot, plunderverb
take illegally; of intellectual property
"This writer plundered from famous authors"
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violate, rifle, foray, ransack, spoil, sack, loot, despoil, strip, rape, pillage, reavesack, plunderverb
plunder (a town) after capture
"the barbarians sacked Rome"
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ransack, send away, spoil, violate, foray, pillage, reave, give notice, sack, sack up, clear, give the sack, force out, rifle, dismiss, displace, can, rape, despoil, strip, net, loot, terminate, give the axe, fireplunder, despoil, loot, reave, strip, rifle, ransack, pillage, forayverb
steal goods; take as spoils
"During the earthquake people looted the stores that were deserted by their owners"
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foray, comb, disrobe, spoil, clean, discase, leach, rape, divest, violate, sack, dismantle, strip, unclothe, undress, reave, rifle, denude, uncase, denudate, strip down, despoil, go, ransack, loot, deprive, peel, bare, pillage, disinvestrape, spoil, despoil, violate, plunderverb
destroy and strip of its possession
"The soldiers raped the beautiful country"
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baffle, pamper, frustrate, scotch, botch, foray, bilk, dishonour, itch, bungle, rifle, ravish, muck up, dishonor, mishandle, bumble, botch up, foil, blow, go bad, screw up, pillage, transgress, fumble, vitiate, flub, rape, baby, impair, ball up, featherbed, bollocks up, loot, break, desecrate, despoil, bodge, mess up, sack, deflower, offend, thwart, louse up, breach, go against, mar, indulge, spoil, muff, violate, infract, strip, outrage, cocker, foul up, ransack, cross, fluff, assault, mollycoddle, bobble, profane, reave, coddle, bollix up, cosset, bollix, corrupt, bollocks
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How to use plunder in a sentence?
But how is this legal plunder to be identified? Quite simply. See if the law takes from some persons what belongs to them, and gives it to other persons to whom it does not belong. See if the law benefits one citizen at the expense of another by doing what the citizen himself cannot do without committing a crime.
When plunder becomes a way of life for a group of men living together in society, they create for themselves in the course of time a legal system that authorizes it and a moral code that glorifies it.
To plunder, to slaughter, to steal, these things they misname empire; and where they make a wilderness, they call it peace.
If you look at Washington, you see permanently camped on the banks of the Potomac spread around in concentric circles an army representing thousands of selfish interests. The sole purpose of their presence is to plunder, by hook or crook, the public treasury for the benefit of their particular people or corporations.
Top Stock brokers are able to plunder the investors money because of inaction by regulator SEBI's top directors year after year
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