plunder
verb (used with object)
to rob of goods or valuables by open force, as in war, hostile raids, brigandage, etc...
have been plundering
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present perfect progressiveof plunder.present perfect progressive
Used to describe an action that began in the past, has continued continuously, and is still in progress.
Example Sentences
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A naval officer infiltrates a band of smugglers who have been plundering the Cornish coastline.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 19, 2019
At the same time, fishermen have been plundering the waters of the marine sanctuary.
From Time Magazine Archive
The good men who have been plundering us for eighteen years have lost for us, and we are going to pay for them; that is plain enough.
From The Pl?biscite or, A Miller's Story of the War by Alexandre Chatrian
What a punishment should this come out to be, upon myself too, that all this while I have been plundering my own treasury?
From Clarissa Harlowe; or the history of a young lady — Volume 7 by Samuel Richardson
“The scoundrels have been plundering a ship, Jim.”
From With Cochrane the Dauntless by G. A. (George Alfred) Henty
