Verb (used with object) : to plunder a town. ,to plunder the public treasury. ,to plunder a piece of property. From Dictionary.com.
I suppose the idea that wealth can be created instead of plundered is completely alien to you. From Wordnik.com. [Sound Politics: Global Warming Update] Reference
How can a mahogany desk, made of slow-growing hard wood plundered from the Amazon, be eco-friendly?. From Wordnik.com. [Archive for » 2008 » July : Sustainablog] Reference
The bottom line is that, unfortunately the poor of Latin America have always been "plundered". From Wordnik.com. [Letters to the editor: June - Nov. 1995] Reference
I did have sort of a similar life situation in my early 20s, which I just kind of plundered for the story. From Wordnik.com. [Love Is A (Video) Game In 'Scott Pilgrim' Battles] Reference
Shakespeare "plundered" Arthur Brooke's The Tragical History of Romeus and Juliet (1562) for his play of (nearly) the same name. From Wordnik.com. [David Shields: In Writing, Art, And Music, Everybody Steals] Reference
Malaysian government says forest reserve 'plundered' for oil palm development. From Wordnik.com. [Mongabay.com News] Reference
RIA Novosti: Yanukovych says Ukraine's profits from unspent Kyoto quotas 'plundered'. From Wordnik.com. [www.kyivpost.com] Reference
Loggers have plundered the country's native forests. From Wordnik.com. [The Greening Of Santiago] Reference
I thought you wanted my body but you plundered my soul. From Wordnik.com. [Mick Jagger: Old 'Exile,' New Lyrics] Reference
I thought you wanted my money, but you plundered my soul. From Wordnik.com. [Old Music Gets A New Life: Reissues From The '60s And '70s] Reference
It had a lot to do with these underground channels of plundered wealth. From Wordnik.com. [China's Hidden Economy Of Graft Undermines State] Reference
Bands or parties of men, who pillaged and plundered wherever they came. From Wordnik.com. [The Bible, Douay-Rheims, Book 12: 4 Kings The Challoner Revision] Reference
Assyrians, who also afflicted him, and plundered him without any resistance. From Wordnik.com. [The Bible, Douay-Rheims, Book 14: 2 Paralipomenon The Challoner Revision] Reference
Bodies plundered by Hiss included those of Palestinians and Israeli soldiers. From Wordnik.com. [Max Blumenthal: "There Are No Civilians During Wartime." Rachel Corrie's Family Confronts the Israeli Military in Court] Reference
Alzheimer's disease had plundered my father like a rigorous, corporeal siege. From Wordnik.com. [Unspoken Bonds] Reference
But what Napoleon plundered or Lord Elgin lugged back to London has the distance of time. From Wordnik.com. [The Spoils Of War] Reference
Gore has made his name as the savior of plundered rain forests and melting polar icecaps. From Wordnik.com. [Gore's Pollution Problem] Reference
Welshman, who had plundered Porto Bello and Panama, and carried off large treasures from them. From Wordnik.com. [An Historical Account of the Rise and Progress of the Colonies of South Carolina and Georgia, Volume 1] Reference
There wasn't enough loot in the banks that he plundered to evenbeginto cover the tab he'd run up. From Wordnik.com. [Ticket To Ride] Reference
Thou hast made kus turn our back to our enemies: and they that hated us plundered for themselves. From Wordnik.com. [The Bible, Douay-Rheims, Book 21: Psalms The Challoner Revision] Reference
Beevor notes that the Russians were even drinking chemicals plundered from industrial laboratories. From Wordnik.com. ['An Act Of Blasphemy'] Reference
Deregulation wrecked and plundered the economy, and eviscerated Americans 'life savings and home equity. From Wordnik.com. [David A. Love: The Professional Left Wants Its F.D.R. Now] Reference
By the latter old cities were plundered and destroyed; by the former new ones were founded and established. From Wordnik.com. [An Historical Account of the Rise and Progress of the Colonies of South Carolina and Georgia, Volume 2] Reference
Under Sukarno and then Suharto, the government plundered Aceh's abundant resources and gave little in return. From Wordnik.com. [Fear And Loathing] Reference
Over the last decade, corrupt politicians have plundered and destroyed the economic and social fiber of Pakistan. From Wordnik.com. [The Team Of The Century] Reference
The debate over whether the rich are being plundered or pampered is a necessary one -- even if it's hard to resolve. From Wordnik.com. [The Rich And Everyone Else] Reference
What right do the rich — who plundered the earth's natural resources to get rich — have to preach to the Third World?. From Wordnik.com. [Mail Call: Green-Challenged] Reference
Its assets plundered, exploited and repeatedly sold, the studio has been reduced to trying to survive largely on celluloid. From Wordnik.com. [Can Mgm Roar Again?] Reference
But environmentalists urge the creation of no-take zones to bring back fish stocks plundered, they say, by commercial fleets. From Wordnik.com. [Fishermen: Angling For Changes] Reference
Long ago, they plundered schooners as they traded tea and opium with China, and targeted ships sailing from the Spice Islands. From Wordnik.com. [Where Pirates Still Sail] Reference
What had been the easternmost Greek city of Ai Khanoum (fourth to second centuries B.C.) has been plundered by illegal diggers. From Wordnik.com. [Repairing A Broken Culture] Reference
What right do the rich — who long plundered the earth's natural resources to get wealthy — have to preach to the Third World?. From Wordnik.com. [Mail Call: Globally Green] Reference
He quickly plundered a couple of boundaries while Allenby reached his half-century off 91 balls as Glamorgan closed on 156-8, 173 ahead. From Wordnik.com. [Jim Allenby key to Glamorgan's hopes of double over Middlesex] Reference
The refugees leave behind a war-torn nation plundered of its most precious resource alongside oil — talented and well-educated people. From Wordnik.com. [Iraq's Quiet Exodus] Reference
But Bedouins have plundered the sites; temple columns are riddled with cracks where they have been used for Kalashnikov target practice. From Wordnik.com. [Inside The Land Of Sheba] Reference
She was sure the carving had been plundered no more than eight years ago from the Temple of Isis at Behbeit Al Hagara, in the Nile delta. From Wordnik.com. [Tomb Raiders, Beware!] Reference
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