plunder
verb (used with object)
to rob of goods or valuables by open force, as in war, hostile raids, brigandage, etc...
plundered
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past participleof plunder.past participle
A verb form used in perfect and passive verb constructions and that can also function as a modifier.
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past tense formof plunder.past tense
Used to describe completed actions or previous habitual actions.
plunderverb (used with object)to rob of goods or valuables by open force, as in war, hostile raids, brigandage, etc...
Example Sentences
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Hermann Goering, a top Nazi official, plundered Goudstikker's entire collection when the art dealer fled to England in 1940.
From Barron's ● May 11, 2026
What rankles more is his only international T20 appearance three weeks later, when Ireland plundered 52 from his four overs.
From BBC ● Apr. 30, 2026
Kyiv plundered warehouses for veteran Soviet antiaircraft guns and fitted heavy machine guns, some almost a century old, with thermal imaging systems.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 15, 2026
He ran up debts, plundered her money and spun a story about a blackmailer from prison coming for them.
From BBC ● Dec. 31, 2025
She held so much under her control, and I was sure the days since her Rocky was plundered, since her lineage was robbed, had demanded nothing less.
From "Between the World and Me" by Ta-Nehisi Coates
