'Plundering' definitions:
Definition of 'plundering'
(from WordNet)
Definition of 'Plundering'
From: GCIDE
- Plunder \Plun"der\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Plundered; p. pr. & vb. n. Plundering.] [G. pl["u]ndern to plunder, plunder frippery, baggage.]
- 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. --South. [1913 Webster]
- 2. To take by pillage; to appropriate forcibly; as, the enemy plundered all the goods they found. [1913 Webster]
- Syn: To pillage; despoil; sack; rifle; strip; rob. [1913 Webster]
Synonyms of 'plundering'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- banditry,
- brigandage,
- brigandism,
- depredation,
- despoiling,
- despoilment,
- despoliation,
- direption,
- foraging,
- foray,
- freebooting,
- looting,
- marauding,
- pillage,
- pillaging,
- plunder,
- plunderous,
- predacious,
- predatory,
- raid,
- raiding,
- ransacking,
- rape,
- rapine,
- ravage,
- ravagement,
- ravaging,
- ravishment,
- razzia,
- reiving,
- rifling,
- sack,
- sacking,
- spoiling,
- spoliation,
- spoliatory