Plunder Synonyms and Antonyms

plŭndər
Goods or property seized unlawfully, especially by a victor in wartime
(Noun)
Synonyms:
  1. booty
  2. loot
  3. pillage
  4. spoil
  5. prize
  6. depredation
  7. winnings
  8. boodle
  9. plunderage
  10. rapine
  11. robbery
  12. swag
  13. dirty-money
Antonyms:
  1. gift
To rob of goods by force, especially in time of war
(Verb)
Synonyms:
  1. loot
  2. despoil
  3. pillage
  4. ravage
  5. ransack
  6. rob
  7. depredate
  8. raid
  9. rape
  10. sack
  11. strip
  12. spoliate
  13. foray
  14. rifle
  15. havoc
  16. booty
  17. devastate
  18. fleece
  19. forage
  20. goods
  21. maraud
  22. peach
  23. pilfer
  24. pirate
  25. pluck
  26. rapine
  27. reave
  28. harrow
  29. raven
  30. spoil
  31. ravish
  32. spoils
  33. steal
  34. swag
Antonyms:
  1. give
  2. receive
Destroy and strip of its possession
(Verb)
Synonyms:
  1. rape
  2. sack
  3. spoil
  4. despoil
  5. violate
Synonyms:
(Adjective)
  1. rapacious

Words Related to Plunder

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Plunder Sentence Examples

  • Athenion sent him with some troops to Delos, to plunder the treasures of the temple, but he showed little military capacity.

  • He was even charged with plotting with his Epirot ally to plunder Delphi.

  • Here as at Tarutino they went after plunder, leaving the men.

  • As a rule they are orderly and law-abiding, but traditions of plunder have been handed down to them from early times, and many of them retain the predatory instincts of their forefathers.

  • The Gauls returned home with their plunder, leaving Rome in a condition from which she took long to recover.

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