plunder(n = noun.possession) booty, dirty money, loot, pillage, prize, swag - goods or money obtained illegally;
is a kind of stolen property
has parts: cut
Derived forms verb plunder₃, verb plunder₂, verb plunder₁

1.  plunder(v = verb.possession) loot - take illegally; of intellectual property; "This writer plundered from famous authors"
is one way to steal
Derived form noun plunder₁
Sample sentences: They plunder the goods

2.  plunder(v = verb.possession) sack - plunder (a town) after capture; "the barbarians sacked Rome"
is one way to take
Derived forms noun plunder₁, noun plunderage₁, noun plunderer₁, noun plundering₁
Sample sentences: Somebody ----s something

3.  plunder(v = verb.possession) despoil, foray, loot, pillage, ransack, reave, rifle, strip - steal goods; take as spoils; "During the earthquake people looted the stores that were deserted by their owners"
is one way to take
Derived forms noun plunder₁, noun plunderer₁, noun plundering₁
Sample sentences: Somebody ----s something

4.  plunder(v = verb.contact) despoil, rape, spoil, violate - destroy and strip of its possession; "The soldiers raped the beautiful country"
is one way to destroy, ruin
Derived form noun plundering₁
Sample sentences: Somebody ----s something

1.  To take the goods of by force, or without right; to pillage; to spoil; to sack; to strip; to rob; as, to plunder travelers. [1913 Webster]
"Nebuchadnezzar plunders the temple of God." [1913 Webster]

2.  To take by pillage; to appropriate forcibly; as, the enemy plundered all the goods they found. [1913 Webster]

1.  The act of plundering or pillaging; robbery. See Syn. of Pillage. [1913 Webster]
"Inroads and plunders of the Saracens." [1913 Webster]

2.  That which is taken by open force from an enemy; pillage; spoil; booty; also, that which is taken by theft or fraud. Cowper. [1913 Webster]

3.  Personal property and effects; baggage or luggage. [1913 Webster]

plunder, v. & n.
--v.tr.
1 rob (a place or person) forcibly of goods, e.g. as in war.
2 rob systematically.
3 (also absol.) steal or embezzle (goods).
--n.
1 the violent or dishonest acquisition of property.
2 property acquired by plundering.
3 colloq. profit, gain.

Derivative:
plunderer n.

Etymology:
LG pl{uuml}ndern lit. 'rob of household goods' f. MHG plunder clothing etc.

N  stealing, theft, thievery, latrociny, direption, abstraction, appropriation, plagiary, plagiarism, autoplagiarism, latrocinium, spoliation, plunder, pillage, sack, sackage, rapine, brigandage, foray, razzia, rape, depredation, raid, blackmail, piracy, privateering, buccaneering, license to plunder, letters of marque, letters of mark and reprisal, filibustering, filibusterism, burglary, housebreaking, badger game, robbery, highway robbery, hold-up, mugging, peculation, embezzlement, fraud, larceny, petty larceny, grand larceny, shoplifting, thievishness, rapacity, kleptomania, Alsatia, den of Cacus, den of thieves, blackmail, extortion, shakedown, Black Hand, thief, thieving, thievish, light-fingered, furacious, furtive, piratical, predaceous, predal, predatory, predatorial, raptorial, stolen, sic vos non vobis.

VB  steal, thieve, rob, mug, purloin, pilfer, filch, prig, bag, nim, crib, cabbage, palm, abstract, appropriate, plagiarize, convey away, carry off, abduct, kidnap, crimp, make off with, walk off with, run off with, run away with, spirit away, seize, plunder, pillage, rifle, sack, loot, ransack, spoil, spoliate, despoil, strip, sweep, gut, forage, levy blackmail, pirate, pickeer, maraud, lift cattle, poach, smuggle, run, badger, bail up, hold up, stick up, bunco, bunko, filibuster, swindle, peculate, embezzle, sponge, mulct, rook, bilk, pluck, pigeon, fleece, defraud, obtain under false pretenses, live by one's wits, rob Peter to pay Paul, borrow of Peter to pay Paul, set a thief to catch a thief, disregard the distinction between meum and tuum, fence, launder, launder money.

N  booty, spoil, plunder, prize, loot, swag, pickings, spolia opima, prey, blackmail, stolen goods, manubial.