plunder
Other forms: plundered; plundering; plunders
Plunder can mean stolen goods or money obtained illegally, or the act of taking those things. A burglar might plunder a jewelry store and then sneak off with her plunder.
Plunder is an old Middle High German word that originally meant "household goods and clothes": in other words, your stuff. During the Thirty Years' War (1618-1648), English speakers acquired this word while fighting in the land that is today Germany, but with the added meaning of taking the plunder as, well, plunder. As both a noun and verb, a synonym for plunder is loot.
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steal goods; take as spoils
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take illegally; of intellectual property
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plunder (a town) after capture
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destroy and strip of its possession
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goods or money obtained illegally
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type of:
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stolen property
property that has been stolen
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stolen property
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