(~s, ~ing, ~ed)
1.
If someone ~s a place or ~s things from a place, they steal things from it. (LITERARY)
They ~ed and burned the market town of Leominster...
She faces charges of helping to ~ her country’s treasury of billions of dollars...
This has been done by ~ing ?4 billion from the Government reserves.
= loot
VERB: V n, V n of n, V n from n
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Plunder is also a noun.
...a guerrilla group infamous for torture and ~.
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2.
Plunder is property that is stolen. (LITERARY)
The thieves are often armed and in some cases have killed for their ~.
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