plundering

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}]
    

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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36 Moby Thesaurus words for "plundering":
      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