(v. t.) To take the goods of by force, or without right; to pillage; to spoil; to sack; to strip; to rob; as, to plunder travelers.
(v. t.) To take by pillage; to appropriate forcibly; as, the enemy plundered all the goods they found.
(n.) The act of plundering or pillaging; robbery. See Syn. of Pillage.
(n.) That which is taken by open force from an enemy; pillage; spoil; booty; also, that which is taken by theft or fraud.
(n.) Personal property and effects; baggage or luggage.
Example Sentences:
(1) The Serb teed up Steve Davis, who crossed low for Graziano Pellè to plunder his fifth league goal of the campaign.
(2) Scott's ambitious design for the hotel and station clearly plundered the architectural treasuries of medieval Europe.
(3) read one banner, against the woman whose family is reviled for taking tasty slices of state business and contracts, and plundering Tunisia's wealth.
(4) But as more end up empty-handed and black market prices soar, plundering is rising in Venezuela , an Opec nation that was already one of the world’s most violent countries.
(5) The French are no longer colonisers, or imperialists, or even plundering racists.
(6) The majority of these children come from Guatemala , Honduras and El Salvador – three of the many countries ravaged by civil strife, drug wars and economic turmoil precipitated by US political and military intervention over several decades, as well as free-trade regimes and the corporate plunder of Latin America's natural resources.
(7) Most newspapers were excoriating, for instance, about the failure of the City's self-regulating bodies to blow the whistle on Robert Maxwell's plunder of the Mirror pension fund .
(8) Kiir has accused government officials of plundering at least $4bn (£2.6bn) from state coffers over seven years.
(9) For every cinephile that delights in Quentin Tarantino's penchant for opulent dialogue and magpie film-historian's eye, there's another who sees the US director of Reservoir Dogs , Pulp Fiction and the Kill Bill movies as a garish charlatan who survives on a habit of plundering the past.
(10) It was like a bomb went off in the room.” Arrest the thieves and embezzlers who are plundering Iraq | Letters Read more Abadi has placed much of his political stock on his reform drive, which he sees as essential to holding the country together.
(11) Mila D Aguilar , 67, poet, Quezon City Facebook Twitter Pinterest Krip Yuson ‘Many Filipinos still bear the scars of his plundering’ He should definitely not have been buried in the LNMB.
(12) With billions of dollars worth of assets of Muammar Gaddafi frozen by the UN and member countries, and other legal moves to recover the wealth of deposed autocrats such as Tunisia's Zine al-Abidine Ben Ali and Egypt's Hosni Mubarak, the drive to seize billions plundered by corrupt leaders has never been higher.
(13) Yet Joe Ledley’s handball might have earned United a penalty of their own after the interval before Ibrahimovic plundered the winner the visitors’ dominance merited .
(14) Damien Duff was sharp and Robbie Keane looked in the mood to plunder.
(15) In the past few years they had seen Ben Ali and his family and friends become extremely rich by plundering the nation.
(16) City were ahead again before half-time, Santa Cruz dummying over Shaun Wright-Phillips' centre for Bellamy to plunder the goal he so richly deserved, but three is not enough to guarantee City victory these days, and Kenwyne Jones, on as substitute, headed in from four yards to get Wearside's barmy army crowing with glee.
(17) Field’s parliamentary investigation concluded that BHS had been systematically plundered.
(18) The National Security Agency whistleblower Edward Snowden used inexpensive and widely available software to plunder the agency’s networks, it has been reported, raising further questions about why he was not detected.
(19) For my part – plundering singles by Artful Dodger, by Semisonic – I have a memory of actually looking over my shoulder.
(20) The question is, why haven't the moon's resources been thoroughly plundered by now?
Pounder
Definition:
(n.) One who, or that which, pounds, as a stamp in an ore mill.
(n.) An instrument used for pounding; a pestle.
(n.) A person or thing, so called with reference to a certain number of pounds in value, weight, capacity, etc.; as, a cannon carrying a twelve-pound ball is called a twelve pounder.
Example Sentences:
(1) He included a link to a YouTube clip of his amateur bout against Charles "Pink Pounder" Jones.
(2) They getting all those weaves from the tail and now they putting them in a quarter-pounder.
(3) The heightened sense of awareness can only extend the career of a fighter that has now absorbed punishment for a total of 399 rounds since turning pro as a 106-pounder in 1995.
(4) Yvonne Bailey Mother of Joseph Scholes who died aged 16 Elizabeth Hardy Mother of Jake Hardy who died aged 17 Rasik Popat Father of Alex Kelly who died aged 15 Sonia Daggett Mother of Ryan Clark who died aged 17 Carol Pounder M other of Adam Rickwood who died aged 14 Helen Redding Mother of Anthony Redding who died aged 16
(5) Had he wanted financing to open a franchise of McDonald’s he would have had fewer hurdles to jump, and Edmonton would have a few more zero-hours jobs, and be a few thousand quarter pounders further into an obesity epidemic.
(6) They wouldn't know what the fuck a Quarter Pounder is."
(7) This study establishes that real differences between relapse rates exist, and confirmed previous observations by Pounder et al.
(8) We employed a forensic pathologist, Professor Derrick Pounder, to examine grim video evidence of those whose relatives allege were killed under torture.
(9) In fact, the cost price of decent beef mince for a quarter pounder – before labour, transport, energy and capital costs, let alone profit, were factored in – was around 43p.
(10) "It's like nothing I'd really done before, and I didn't really understand it," says Pattinson, 26, now chewing on a toothpick, partly to rid himself of the remnants of a quarter pounder with cheese and partly because he is trying to give up smoking.
(11) Dr Saks is fictional: Woodroof's physician in his later years was a man, Steven Pounders.
(12) But if you ask me inside my heart, I believe I won.” Four months into his rehabilitation, Pacquiao said he decided this would be the last fight of a career that’s spanned 419 rounds since he turned pro as a 106-pounder in 1995.
(13) Talking me through this material, Pounder said the videos show "compelling evidence of crude physical violence, strangulation, homicide, shootings and general assaults.
(14) Amis wrote: "I often tell him that if the Rushdie Affair were, for instance, the Amis Affair, then I would, by now, be a tearful and tranquillised 300-pounder, with no eyelashes or nostril hairs, and covered in blotches and burns from various misadventures with the syringe and the crackpipe."