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n. - The act of stealing valuable things from a place adj. - Given to taking by force what is desired.

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Usage examples (38)
  • The plundering of the Parthenon
  • His plundering of the great authors
  • Verb (used with object) : to plunder a town. ,to plunder the public treasury. ,to plunder a piece of property
  • Robbing he called plundering the enemy; and hanging was, in his idea, a dastardly and cruel advantage that the latter took, and that called for the sternest reprisals.
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