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Synonyms for plunder
ˈplʌn dərplun·der
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Princeton's WordNet
loot, booty, pillage, plunder, prize, swag, dirty moneyverb
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, plunderverb
take illegally; of intellectual property
"This writer plundered from famous authors"
Synonyms:
violate, rifle, foray, ransack, spoil, sack, loot, despoil, strip, rape, pillage, reavesack, plunderverb
plunder (a town) after capture
"the barbarians sacked Rome"
Synonyms:
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"
Synonyms:
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"
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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List of paraphrases for "plunder":
looting, plundering, pillage, pillaging, loot, looted, depredation, booty
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Words popularity by usage frequency
| ranking | word | |
|---|---|---|
| #34 | can | |
| #123 | go | |
| #669 | baby | |
| #674 | net | |
| #772 | mar | |
| #907 | clear | |
| #960 | fire | |
| #1083 | cross | |
| #1367 | award | |
| #1605 | rape | |
| #1618 | break | |
| #1809 | clean | |
| #2540 | blow | |
| #3383 | sugar | |
| #3862 | strip | |
| #4300 | prize | |
| #4750 | booty | |
| #4920 | bread | |
| #6171 | assault | |
| #6959 | bare | |
| #7665 | scratch | |
| #9001 | breach | |
| #10008 | rifle | |
| #10423 | trophy | |
| #10518 | terminate | |
| #10816 | foil | |
| #11929 | peel | |
| #11969 | corrupt | |
| #12746 | violate | |
| #13739 | dough | |
| #15199 | sack | |
| #15596 | dismiss | |
| #16013 | comb | |
| #16414 | cabbage | |
| #17024 | scotch | |
| #18846 | lettuce | |
| #20114 | outrage | |
| #20396 | indulge | |
| #20643 | leach | |
| #21436 | spoil | |
| #23039 | offend | |
| #25353 | loot | |
| #25560 | impair | |
| #26507 | itch | |
| #26944 | bobble | |
| #27618 | cocker | |
| #28828 | bumble | |
| #29630 | fluff | |
| #30892 | fumble | |
| #30906 | clams | |
| #31815 | pamper | |
| #32349 | deprive | |
| #32543 | profane | |
| #32835 | looting | |
| #33390 | swag | |
| #33911 | muff | |
| #35497 | dismantle | |
| #36264 | thwart | |
| #37131 | undress | |
| #37254 | plunder | |
| #38857 | kale | |
| #39511 | foray | |
| #40027 | displace | |
| #41205 | baffle | |
| #46566 | looted | |
| #48854 | shekels | |
| #49040 | frustrate | |
| #50918 | dinero | |
| #53610 | bollocks | |
| #57750 | lolly | |
| #58940 | divest | |
| #59800 | dishonor | |
| #60754 | pillage | |
| #63134 | bungle | |
| #69241 | wampum | |
| #74268 | plundering | |
| #92722 | dishonour | |
| #98708 | transgress | |
| #99054 | featherbed | |
| #104177 | botch | |
| #106773 | lucre | |
| #108052 | pillaging | |
| #120061 | bilk | |
| #121624 | vitiate | |
| #126219 | depredation | |
| #126686 | moolah | |
| #132871 | desecrate | |
| #151654 | ravish | |
| #162842 | coddle | |
| #163144 | gelt | |
| #164671 | ransack | |
| #199752 | disrobe | |
| #216729 | boodle | |
| #220019 | flub | |
| #228192 | despoil | |
| #231784 | bodge | |
| #284974 | deflower | |
| #304082 | simoleons | |
| #315643 | mishandle |
How to use plunder in a sentence?
Top Stock brokers are able to plunder the investors money because of inaction by regulator SEBI's top directors year after year
The liberal idea presupposes that nothing needs to be done. The migrants can kill, plunder and rape with impunity because their rights as migrants must be protected. What rights are these? Every crime must have its punishment, so, the liberal idea has become obsolete. It has come into conflict with the interests of the overwhelming majority of the population.
This new law will precipitate an environmental crisis by opening the flood gates to unfettered commercialization by wealthy and well-connected offshore investors who will plunder what is left of this fragile paradise.
To plunder, to slaughter, to steal, these things they misname empire; and where they make a wilderness, they call it peace.
The years as they pass plunder us of one thing after another.
Translations for plunder
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- نهبArabic
- lup, vyplenit, kořist, loupitCzech
- Raubgut, ausplündern, ausbeuten, Beute, Plünderung, plündernGerman
- λεία, λεηλατώ, κούρσεμα, λεηλασία, διαγούμισμα, κουρσεύω, καταληστεύω, πλιάτσικο, λαφυραγώγηση, λάφυρα, πλιατσικολογώ, διαγουμίζω, λαφυραγωγώGreek
- saquear, botín, saqueoSpanish
- ryöstö, ryöstösaalis, ryöstääFinnish
- piller, pillageFrench
- creachScottish Gaelic
- fosztogat, kifoszt, kirabol, zsákmányHungarian
- ավար, թալանArmenian
- menjarahIndonesian
- rapinare, razziare, predare, bottino, saccheggio, fare man bassa, fare piazza pulita, depredare, saccheggiare, saccoItalian
- 略奪Japanese
- praedoLatin
- tūkuku, mūrei, hui, whakarekereke, pāhue, pāhuahua, pāhuaMāori
- plyndre, plyndring, bytteNorwegian
- plunderen, leegroven, roven, plunderbuit, opgebruiken, plundering, brandschatting, brandschatten, buit, uitputtenDutch
- bytte, plyndre, plyndringNorwegian Nynorsk
- plyndringNorwegian
- saquear, pilhar, butim, saque, pilhagemPortuguese
- pradăRomanian
- грабёж, грабить, разграбление, трофей, награбленное добро, добычаRussian
- плен, плијенSerbo-Croatian
- plundra, plundringSwedish
- piyî, haper, branscater, forsipoujhîWalloon
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