PLUNDER


Meaning of PLUNDER in English

transcription, транскрипция: [ plʌndə(r) ]

( plunders, plundering, plundered)

1.

If someone plunders a place or plunders things from a place, they steal things from it. ( LITERARY )

They plundered and burned the market town of Leominster...

She faces charges of helping to plunder her country’s treasury of billions of dollars...

This has been done by plundering £4 billion from the Government reserves.

= loot

VERB : V n , V n of n , V n from n

Plunder is also a noun.

...a guerrilla group infamous for torture and plunder.

N-UNCOUNT

2.

Plunder is property that is stolen. ( LITERARY )

The thieves are often armed and in some cases have killed for their plunder.

N-UNCOUNT

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