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1. Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0
banditry, brigandage, brigandism, depredation, despoiling, despoilment, despoliation, direption, foraging, foray, freebooting, looting, marauding, pillage, pillaging, plunder, plunderous, predacious, predatory, raid, raiding, ransacking, rape, rapine, ravage, ravagement, ravaging, ravishment, razzia, reiving, rifling, sack, sacking, spoiling, spoliation, spoliatory
Dictionary Results for plundering:
1. WordNet® 3.0 (2006)
plundering
    adj 1: given to taking by force what is desired
    n 1: the act of stealing valuable things from a place; "the
         plundering of the Parthenon"; "his plundering of the great
         authors" [syn: plundering, pillage, pillaging]
2. The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
Plunder \Plun"der\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Plundered; p. pr. &
   vb. n. Plundering.] [G. pl["u]ndern to plunder, plunder
   frippery, baggage.]
   1. To take the goods of by force, or without right; to
      pillage; to spoil; to sack; to strip; to rob; as, to
      plunder travelers.
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            Nebuchadnezzar plunders the temple of God. --South.
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   2. To take by pillage; to appropriate forcibly; as, the enemy
      plundered all the goods they found.
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   Syn: To pillage; despoil; sack; rifle; strip; rob.
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