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Plunderer

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Noun

1. despoiler, freebooter, looter, pillager, plunderer, raider, spoiler

someone who takes spoils or plunder (as in war)

WordNet Lexical Database for English. Princeton University. 2010.

Plunderer

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verb
1. 
to steal (valuables, goods, sacred items, etc) from (a town, church, etc) by force, esp in time of war; loot
2. (transitive)
to rob or steal (choice or desirable things) from (a place)
to plunder an orchard
noun
3. 
anything taken by plundering or theft; booty
4. 
the act of plundering; pillage

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Plunderer

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verb transitive
1. 
to rob or despoil (a person or place) by force, esp. in warfare
2. 
to take (property) by force or fraud
verb intransitive
3. 
to engage in plundering
noun
4. 
the act of plundering; pillage; robbery
5. 
goods taken by force or fraud; loot; booty
6.  US, Dialectal
personal belongings or household furnishings

Webster’s New World College Dictionary, 4th Edition. Copyright © 2010 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. All rights reserved.

Plunderer

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v. plun·dered, plun·der·ing, plun·ders
v.tr.
1. To rob of goods by force, especially in time of war; pillage: plunder a village.
2. To seize wrongfully or by force; steal: plundered the supplies.
v.intr.
To take booty; rob.
n.
1. The act or practice of plundering.
2. Property stolen by fraud or force; booty.

The American Heritage ® Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth Edition copyright ©2018 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.

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