plunder

  • 11Plunder — Plunder, allerhand werthlose Sachen …

    Pierer's Universal-Lexikon

  • 12plunder — I noun booty, depredation, devastation, foray, haul, ill gotten goods, illicit gains, loot, maraud, pillage, praeda, raid, rapina, rapine, ravin, razzia, robbery, sack, seizure, spoils, spoliation, stolen articles, stolen goods, take, theft II… …

    Law dictionary

  • 13plunder — as a verb has inflected forms plundered, plundering …

    Modern English usage

  • 14plunder — ▪ I. plunder plunder 2 noun [uncountable] 1. large amounts of money or property that have been stolen: • The army returned loaded down with plunder. 2. the act of plundering: • The dictator s fortune was amassed during three decades of plunder of …

    Financial and business terms

  • 15Plunder — Klüngel; Krempel (umgangssprachlich); Müll (derb); Krimskrams (umgangssprachlich); Kramuri (österr.) (umgangssprachlich); Ramsch (umgangssprachlich); …

    Universal-Lexikon

  • 16plunder — [[t]plʌ̱ndə(r)[/t]] plunders, plundering, plundered 1) VERB If someone plunders a place or plunders things from a place, they steal things from it. [LITERARY] [V n] They plundered and burned the market town of Leominster... [V n of n] She faces… …

    English dictionary

  • 17plunder — plunderable, adj. plunderer, n. plunderingly, adv. plunderous, adj. /plun deuhr/, v.t. 1. to rob of goods or valuables by open force, as in war, hostile raids, brigandage, etc.: to plunder a town. 2. to rob, despoil, or fleece: to plunder the… …

    Universalium

  • 18plunder — plun|der1 [ˈplʌndə US ər] v written [Date: 1600 1700; : German; Origin: plündern, from Middle High German plunder things used in the home, clothes ] 1.) [I and T] to steal large amounts of money or property from somewhere, especially while… …

    Dictionary of contemporary English

  • 19Plunder — Ein typisches Plundergebäck: Franzbrötchen Plunderteig ist ein Hefeteig mit touriertem Ziehfett. Er wird aus einem Hefefeinteig hergestellt, in den wie beim Blätterteig Fett (Butter oder Margarine) in mehreren Falt und Ausrollvorgängen (Touren)… …

    Deutsch Wikipedia

  • 20plunder — 1 verb (I, T) to steal large amounts of money or property from somewhere, especially in a violent way that causes damage: The rich provinces of Asia Minor were plundered by the invaders. | greedy tycoons who plunder their companies pension funds… …

    Longman dictionary of contemporary English