Synonyms for plunder
ˈplʌn dərplun·der

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1. 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, pillage

2. loot, plunderverb

   take illegally; of intellectual property

   "This writer plundered from famous authors"

   Synonyms:
   violate, rifle, foray, ransack, spoil, sack, loot, despoil, strip, rape, pillage, reave

3. sack, 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, fire

4. plunder, 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, disinvest

5. rape, 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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1. plunderverb

   Synonyms:
   pillage, spoil, despoil, rob, rifle, sack, ravage, fleece, strip, lay waste

2. plundernoun

   Synonyms:
   rapine, booty, spoil, pillage, prey

3. plundernoun

   Synonyms:
   [Southern and Western U. S.] baggage, luggage

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1. plundernoun

   Synonyms:
   booty, spoil, loot, pillage, robbery

2. plunderverb

   Synonyms:
   pillage, loot, rob

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1. List of paraphrases for "plunder":

   looting, plundering, pillage, pillaging, loot, looted, depredation, booty

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1. Vladimir Putin:

   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.

2. Frederic Bastiat:

   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.

3. Frederic Bastiat:

   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.

4. Charley Reese:

   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.

5. Horace:

   The years as they pass plunder us of one thing after another.