plunders

NOUN

something stolen

Synonyms

STRONGEST

pillage

STRONG

booty goods graft loot make pickings plunderage prey prize quarry rapine raven spoil stuff take trappings winnings

WEAK

hot goods

Antonyms

WEAK

gift

VERB

ravage, steal

Synonyms

STRONGEST

devastate liberate loot pillage ransack requisition rob salvage

STRONG

appropriate burn despoil fleece forage foray grab gut kip lift loft maraud prey prowl raid relieve rifle sack snatch spoil strip

WEAK

depredate knock off knock over lay waste moonlight requisition rip off smash and grab stick up

Antonyms

STRONGEST

give

STRONG

aid guard help protect receive

Example Sentences

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A blend of Islamic and Hindu beliefs has long served as a conservation code, with supernatural guardians believed to punish anyone who plunders the forest for greed.

From Barron's • Apr. 28, 2026

It plunders parental fantasies about our children as future professional athletes.

From Washington Post • Aug. 4, 2022

If you have heard at all about guardianship for older adults, chances are that it has been about a predatory guardian who plunders the estate of a helpless older person.

From New York Times • Dec. 7, 2018

The narrator thinks about the way he plunders the lives of those around him.

From The New Yorker • Aug. 13, 2018

The landlord, the State, and the banker thus plunders the cultivator by means of rent, taxes, and interest.

From The Conquest of Bread by Kropotkin, Petr Alekseevich, kniaz