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Synonyms for plunder
ˈplʌn dər
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Princeton's WordNet
loot, booty, pillage, plunder, prize, swag, dirty money(verb)
goods or money obtained illegally
Synonyms:
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, plunder(verb)
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, plunder(verb)
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, foray(verb)
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, plunder(verb)
destroy and strip of its possession
"The soldiers raped the beautiful country"
Synonyms:
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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Synonyms, Antonyms & Associated Words
PPDB, the paraphrase database
List of paraphrases:
looting, plundering, pillage, pillaging, loot, looted, depredation, booty
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Translations for plunder
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- نهبArabic
- lup, vyplenit, kořist, loupitCzech
- Plünderung, plündern, ausplündern, ausbeuten, Beute, RaubgutGerman
- πλιάτσικο, λεηλατώ, κούρσεμα, λεηλασία, διαγούμισμα, κουρσεύω, καταληστεύω, λαφυραγώγηση, λάφυρα, πλιατσικολογώ, διαγουμίζω, λεία, λαφυραγωγώGreek
- botín, saquear, saqueoSpanish
- ryöstösaalis, ryöstää, ryöstöFinnish
- pillage, pillerFrench
- creachScottish Gaelic
- kifoszt, zsákmány, kirabol, fosztogatHungarian
- թալան, ավարArmenian
- menjarahIndonesian
- predare, saccheggiare, sacco, fare man bassa, rapinare, saccheggio, razziare, depredare, bottino, fare piazza pulitaItalian
- 略奪Japanese
- praedoLatin
- pāhua, pāhuahua, pāhue, tūkuku, mūrei, whakarekereke, huiMāori
- plyndring, plyndre, bytteNorwegian
- leegroven, plunderen, uitputten, brandschatting, opgebruiken, brandschatten, buit, plunderbuit, roven, plunderingDutch
- plyndre, plyndring, bytteNorwegian Nynorsk
- plyndringNorwegian
- saquear, pilhar, pilhagem, saque, butimPortuguese
- pradăRomanian
- грабёж, добыча, грабить, разграбление, трофей, награбленное доброRussian
- плен, плијенSerbo-Croatian
- plundring, plundraSwedish
- piyî, haper, forsipoujhî, branscaterWalloon
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