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PLUNDERING

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 I. (noun) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

The act of stealing valuable things from a placeplay

Example:

his plundering of the great authors

Synonyms:

pillage; pillaging; plundering

Classified under:

Nouns denoting acts or actions

Hypernyms ("plundering" is a kind of...):

aggression; hostility (violent action that is hostile and usually unprovoked)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "plundering"):

banditry (the practice of plundering in gangs)

rape; rapine (the act of despoiling a country in warfare)

looting; robbery (plundering during riots or in wartime)

despoilation; despoilment; despoliation; spoil; spoilation; spoliation (the act of stripping and taking by force)

devastation; ravaging (plundering with excessive damage and destruction)

depredation; predation (an act of plundering and pillaging and marauding)

sack (the plundering of a place by an army or mob; usually involves destruction and slaughter)

Derivation:

plunder (destroy and strip of its possession)

plunder (steal goods; take as spoils)

plunder (plunder (a town) after capture)

 II. (adjective) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

Given to taking by force what is desiredplay

Classified under:

Adjectives

Similar:

acquisitive (eager to acquire and possess things especially material possessions or ideas)

 III. (verb) 

Sense 1

-ing form of the verb plunder

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