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Definition

to steal — often after conquering the location with the goods

or:

the goods stolen

plundered = stole goods

plundered = stole goods from

The rulers have been plundering their country for decades.
The chest was filled with plunder.
What about all the crooks and thieves and just plain idiots who will come into power and steal and plunder the same as before—
Lorraine Hansberry -- A Raisin in the Sun

plunder = steal goods

He has plundered our seas,
Thomas Jefferson et al. -- The Declaration of Independence

plundered = stolen from

He walked out through the woods to where they'd left the cart. It was still lying there but it had been plundered.
Cormac McCarthy -- The Road

plundered = stolen from (things of value had been stolen from the cart)

Dragons steal gold and jewels, you know, from men and elves and dwarves, wherever they can find them; and they guard their plunder as long as they live
J.R.R. Tolkien -- The Hobbit

plunder = stolen goods

She thought about the mayor, down in his room full of plunder, gorging on peaches and asparagus and wrapping his huge body in elegant new clothes.
Jeanne DuPrau -- The City of Ember

plunder = stolen goods

At the age of two, he got up in the middle of the night, found his way outside without waking his parents, and entered a house down the street to plunder a neighbor's candy drawer.
Jon Krakauer -- Into the Wild

plunder = steal from

The skiff was half full of plunder which that gang had stole there on the wreck.
Mark Twain -- The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn

plunder = stolen goods

I am done with the monster of "We," the word of serfdom, of plunder, of misery, falsehood and shame.
Ayn Rand -- Anthem

plunder = stealing

They'll dream about vicious children plundering the nest.
David Almond -- Skellig

plundering = stealing from

This writer plundered from famous authors
He was arrested for plundering.
Kurt Vonnegut -- Slaughterhouse-Five
He felt richer than Robinson Crusoe with all the plunder from that sunken ship.
Elizabeth George Speare -- The Sign of the Beaver
What! servants of thy own Merciful Son, who came to seek and save The homeless and the outcast, fettering down The tasked and plundered slave!
Frederick Douglass -- The Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass
Miss Stuart was in exile, from plundered Scotland still declining, three thousand miles away.
Margaret Atwood -- Cat's Eye
I may trow away the bag! for if there's plunder, 'twill not be the wife of sich as yerself that will be privileged to be getting the same.
James Fenimore Cooper -- The Pioneers
He glanced through it hurriedly, mumbling all the time, judged 'it would do,' and took himself off with this plunder.
Joseph Conrad -- Heart of Darkness

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