plunder
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Động từ
verb- 1.
(transitive)To pillage, take or destroy all the goods of, by force (as in war); to raid, sack.
The mercenaries plundered the small town.
The shopkeeper was plundered of his possessions by the burglar.
Đồng nghĩa: ravage
- 2.
(transitive)To take (goods) by pillage.
The mercenaries plundered all the goods they found.
- 3.
(intransitive)To take by force or wrongfully; to commit robbery or looting, to raid.
“Now to plunder, mateys!” screamed a buccaneer, to cries of “Arrgh!” and “Aye!” all around.
- 4.
(transitive)To make extensive (over)use of, as if by plundering; to use or use up wrongfully.
The miners plundered the jungle for its diamonds till it became a muddy waste.
- 5.
(transitive)To take unexpectedly.
Danh từ
noun- 1.
(uncountable)An instance of plundering.
- 2.
(uncountable)The loot attained by plundering.
The Hessian kept his choicest plunder in a sack that never left his person, for fear that his comrades would steal it.
Đồng nghĩa: boodle, booty, fang, gizzit, haul, hot property, loot, pelf, pickings, pillage, plunder, prigging, sack, spoil, spoils, swag
- 3.
(dated, slang, uncountable)Baggage; luggage.
- 4.
(Philippines, uncountable)(Philippines, crime) The crime of amassing ill-gotten wealth by public officials through a combination or series of overt criminal acts.
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Recorded since 1632 during the Thirty Years War, native British use since the Cromwellian Civil War. Borrowed from German plündern (to loot), from -, from plunderen, from a noun originally meaning "household goods, bedding, clothing," of obscure ultimate origin.