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ds of by force, or without right; to pillage; to spoil; to sack; to strip; to rob; as, to plunder travelers. Nebuchadnezzar plunders the temple of God. South.

The embezzlement of goods on shipboard. Wharton.

One who plunders or pillages.

To rob; to plunder. [Obs.]

To plunder; to waste in riot. [Obs.]

Hence: To seek for game or plunder; to thieve. [R.] B. Jonson.

To forage for booty; to plunder. [Obs.] Beau. & Fl.

Advantage; gain; gain by plunder; booty. [Obs.] Sir. J. Harrington.

h is seized by violence or obtained by robbery, especially collective spoil taken in war; plunder; pillage. Milton. To play booty, to play dishonestly, with an intent to lose; to allow one's adversary to win at cards at first, in order to induce him to continue playing and victimize him afterwards. [Obs.] L'Estrange.…

A lawless fellow who lives by plunder; one of a band of robbers; especially, one of a gang living in mountain retreats; a highwayman; a freebooter. Giving them not a little the air of brigands or banditti. Jeffery.

Life and practice of brigands; highway robbery; plunder.

and the adjacent parts of the United States; -- called also Paducahs. They are noted for plundering and cruelty.

forth on the ocean; to sail, as for the potection of commerce, in search of an enemy, for plunder, or for pleasure.

To subject to plunder and pillage; to despoil; to lay waste; to prey upon. It makes the substance of the body . . . less apt to be consumed and depredated by the spirits. Bacon.

One who plunders or pillages; a spoiler; a robber.

Tending or designed to depredate; characterized by depredation; plundering; as, a depredatory incursion.

To deprive for spoil; to plunder; to rob; to pillage; to strip; to divest; -- usually followed by of. The clothed earth is then bare, Despoiled is the summer fair. Gower. A law which restored to them an immense domain of which they had been despoiled. Macaulay. Despoiled of innocence, of faith, of bliss. Milton.…

A stripping or plundering; spoliation. Bailey.

The act of plundering, despoiling, or snatching away. [R.] Speed.

With plundering violence; by violent injustice. [R.] Strype.