Antonyms for plunder


Grammar : Noun, verb
Spell : pluhn-der
Phonetic Transcription : ˈplʌn dər


Definition of plunder

Origin :
  • 1630s, from German plündern, from Middle High German plunderen "to plunder," originally "to take away household furniture," from plunder (n.) "household goods, clothes," also "lumber, baggage" (14c.; cf. Modern German Plunder "lumber, trash"), which is related to Middle Dutch plunder "household goods;" Frisian and Dutch plunje "clothes." A word acquired by English via the Thirty Years War and applied in native use after the outbreak of the English Civil War in 1642. Related: Plundered; plundering. Plunderbund was a U.S. colloquial word from 1914 referring to "a corrupt alliance of corporate and financial interests," with German Bund "alliance, league."
  • noun something stolen
  • verb ravage, steal
Example sentences :
  • We had hauled our manly tacks aboard, and had no thoughts of plunder.
  • Extract from : « Ned Myers » by James Fenimore Cooper
  • She had money on board (the plunder of Malta) to the amount of L600,000 sterling.
  • Extract from : « The Life of Horatio Lord Nelson » by Robert Southey
  • It was profusely strewed with the plunder of that unlucky fortress.
  • Extract from : « The Last of the Mohicans » by James Fenimore Cooper
  • Nevertheless, the Danes could not plunder England as easily as before.
  • Extract from : « Introductory American History » by Henry Eldridge Bourne
  • An officer cried directly that he had helped to plunder a house last night.
  • Extract from : « Barnaby Rudge » by Charles Dickens
  • They provoke no wars, they ravage no countries, they pursue no plunder.
  • Extract from : « Tacitus on Germany » by Tacitus
  • When the detachment arrived, nothing was left for them but plunder.
  • Extract from : « Chronicles of Border Warfare » by Alexander Scott Withers
  • They were a family of bandits lying in wait, ready to rifle and plunder.
  • Extract from : « The Fortune of the Rougons » by Emile Zola
  • Only remembering that if he plunder or brawl, I may have to leave him hanging on the next bush.'
  • Extract from : « Two Penniless Princesses » by Charlotte M. Yonge
  • He has ridden with them probably, and has had the piper's share of the plunder and whatever else was going.
  • Extract from : « The Balladists » by John Geddie

Synonyms for plunder

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