(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?
Rape
Definition:
(n.) Fruit, as grapes, plucked from the cluster.
(n.) The refuse stems and skins of grapes or raisins from which the must has been expressed in wine making.
(n.) A filter containing the above refuse, used in clarifying and perfecting malt, vinegar, etc.
(n.) The act of seizing and carrying away by force; violent seizure; robbery.
(n.) Sexual connection with a woman without her consent. See Age of consent, under Consent, n.
(n.) That which is snatched away.
(n.) Movement, as in snatching; haste; hurry.
(v. t.) To commit rape upon; to ravish.
(v. i.) To rob; to pillage.
(n.) One of six divisions of the county of Sussex, England, intermediate between a hundred and a shire.
(n.) A name given to a variety or to varieties of a plant of the turnip kind, grown for seeds and herbage. The seeds are used for the production of rape oil, and to a limited extent for the food of cage birds.
Example Sentences:
(1) The author's experience in private psychoanalytic practice and in Philadelphia's rape victim clinics indicates that these assaults occur frequently.
(2) In a Bloomberg article last week, for example, one Stanford student compared women who get raped to unlocked bicycles : ‘Do I deserve to have my bike stolen if I leave it unlocked on the quad?’ [Chris] Herries, 22, said.
(3) Madonna has defended her description of the leak of 13 unfinished demos from her forthcoming album as “a form of terrorism” and “artistic rape”.
(4) She has been accused of being responsible for rape, sexual slavery, and prostitution itself.
(5) In confidence rape, the assailant is known to some degree, however slight, and gains control over his victim by winning her trust.
(6) Under any other circumstances, a penalty of life imprisonment could be imposed on both the woman undergoing the abortion and anyone assisting her – even if the abortion is sought because of a fatal foetal impairment, for example, or because the pregnancy is the result of rape.
(7) This report concerns the rape of a woman by a stranger.
(8) It may be no coincidence that rape was an integral part of the mass killings in Rwanda 14 years ago.
(9) Odyssey House has conducted an annual marathon therapy group for women who are rape survivors.
(10) This is understandable: marital rape has not been a part of India’s discourse.
(11) Two years later, the Guardian could point to reforms that owed much to what Ashley called his "bloody-mindedness" in five areas: non-disclosure of victims' names in rape cases; the rights of battered wives; the ending of fuel disconnections for elderly people; a royal commission on the legal profession; and civil liability for damages such as those due to thalidomide victims.
(12) And so, through Trove’s archived newspapers, I’ve found Harry – the mission boy who saw the Japanese at Caledon Bay imprison women, girls and old men in the trepang smokehouse, before raping the women in the bush.
(13) The results show that in the majority of victims the response to rape within the first two weeks displays the symptoms of PTSD, although the criterion of duration is not fulfilled.
(14) Among the thousands of candidates – whose nominations will be have to be put forward to the election commission in coming weeks – are expected to be Bollywood film stars, cricket players, serving parliamentarians accused of rape and murder, as well dozens of larger-than-life regional leaders.
(15) Beatings with metal bars and cables were followed by so-called “security checks”, during which women in particular were subjected to rape and sexual assault by male guards.
(16) Males who believe they consumed alcohol show increased arousal to deviant stimuli (rape, violent erotica) compared to males who are told to expect no alcohol.
(17) Both are alleged to have plied the Devon girl with drugs, raped her and left her unconscious to drown on Anjuna beach, metres from a bar in which the group had spent the evening drinking.
(18) The retired judge’s report outlines multiple rapes and indecent assaults on children by Savile, which she claims were all “in some way associated with the BBC”.
(19) Those factors that have determined the overall relationships between men and women are reviewed in an attempt to explain rape and wife-beating.
(20) The capacity of new selected sorts of rape and winter cress oils to decrease a high cholesterol level in the blood and liver was studied in "cholesterol" rats.