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| Main Entry: |
plunder
[pluhn-der]
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| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | something stolen |
| Synonyms: | booty, goods*, graft, hot goods, loot, make*, pickings, pillage, plunderage, prey, prize, quarry, rapine, raven, spoil, stuff*, take*, trappings, winnings |
| Antonyms: | gift |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | booty |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | loot |
| Synonyms: | boodle, gain, goods, haul*, pickings, plunder, spoils, swag, takings |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | contraband |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | black-market production |
| Synonyms: | bootlegging, counterfeiting, crime, dealing, goods*, moonshine, piracy, plunder, poaching, rum-running, smuggling, stuff, swag, theft, trafficking, violation, wetbacking |
| Antonyms: | legal goods |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | depredation |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | devastation, destruction |
| Synonyms: | burglary, crime, desecration, desolation, despoiling, laying waste, marauding, pillage, plunder, ransacking, rapine, ravaging, robbery, sacking, spoliation, stealing, theft, wasting |
| Antonyms: | boon, construction, goodness, miracle, wonder |
| Main Entry: | desolate |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | ravage, destroy |
| Synonyms: | depopulate, depredate, desecrate, despoil, devastate, devour, lay low, lay waste, pillage, plunder, ruin, sack, spoliate, waste |
| Notes: | lonely adds to solitary a suggestion of longing for companionship, while lonesome heightens the suggestion of sadness; forlorn and desolate are even more isolated and sad |
| Antonyms: | build, construct, improve |
| Main Entry: | despoil |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | ravage, destroy |
| Synonyms: | denude, depopulate, depredate, deprive, desecrate, desolate, devastate, devour, dispossess, divest, loot, maraud, pillage, plunder, raid, rifle, rob, sack, spoil, spoliate, strip, vandalize, waste, wreak havoc, wreck |
| Antonyms: | build, construct, improve |
| Main Entry: | devastate |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | demolish, destroy |
| Synonyms: | depredate, desecrate, desolate, despoil, devour, do one in, lay waste, level, pillage, plunder, raid, ravage, raze, ruin, sack, smash, spoil, spoliate, stamp out, take apart, total*, trash*, waste, wipe off map, wreck |
| Antonyms: | build, construct, enrich, help, improve |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | devastation |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | destruction |
| Synonyms: | confusion, defoliation, demolition, depredation, desolation, havoc, loss, pillage, plunder, ravages, ruin, ruination, spoliation, waste |
| Antonyms: | building, construction, creation |
| Main Entry: | divest |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | dispossess; take off |
| Synonyms: | bankrupt, bare, bereave, bleed, denudate, denude, deprive, despoil, disinherit, dismantle, disrobe, ditch*, doff, dump, eighty-six, lose, milk, oust, plunder, remove, rob, seize, spoil, strip, take from, unclothe, uncover, undress, unload |
| Antonyms: | clothe, cover, invest, possess, take |
* = informal/non-formal usage
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