plunder
verb (used with object)
to rob of goods or valuables by open force, as in war, hostile raids, brigandage, etc...
plunders
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present tense formof plunder (3rd person singular).present tense
Used to describe things happening now or regularly.
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
To the extent that “Mortal Engines” resembles anything, it’s other movies, which it plunders with a landfill-diving zeal that suits the surviving populace.
From New York Times ● Dec. 13, 2018
The narrator thinks about the way he plunders the lives of those around him.
From The New Yorker ● Aug. 13, 2018
It helps that Lothar Koenigs, conducting, plunders the score for every last ounce of feeling, exceptionally delivered by the WNO orchestra.
From The Guardian ● Feb. 17, 2013
At night he enters the gardens contiguous to the houses, and plunders them of all kinds of fruits and vegetables.
From Bruin The Grand Bear Hunt by Johann Baptist Zwecker
