plunder
verbosubstantivoatestado nos diálogos
- Reino Unido//ˈplʌndə//
- Estados Unidos//ˈplʌndɚ//
- Estados Unidos//ˈplɜn-//
To pillage, take or destroy all the goods of, by force (as in war); to raid, sack.
verbo
- 1
To pillage, take or destroy all the goods of, by force (as in war); to raid, sack.
The mercenaries plundered the small town.
The shopkeeper was plundered of his possessions by the burglar.
Now Azaēlos, the king of Syria, made war on the Israelites and their king Jehu, and ravaged the eastern parts of the country across the Jordan […] spreading fire everywhere and plundering everything and inflicting violence on all who fell into his hands.
- 2
To take (goods) by pillage.
The mercenaries plundered all the goods they found.
- 3
To take by force or wrongfully; to commit robbery or looting, to raid.
“Now to plunder, mateys!” screamed a buccaneer, to cries of “Arrgh!” and “Aye!” all around.
- 4
To make extensive (over)use of, as if by plundering; to use or use up wrongfully.
The miners plundered the jungle for its diamonds till it became a muddy waste.
- 5
To take unexpectedly.
The Serb teed up Steve Davis, who crossed low for Graziano Pellè to plunder his fifth league goal of the campaign.
- 6
To amass ill-gotten wealth (by public officials) through a combination or series of overt criminal acts.
Etimologia
Recorded since 1632 during the Thirty Years War, native British use since the Cromwellian Civil War. Borrowed from German plündern (“to loot”), from Middle High German, from Middle Low German plunderen, from a noun originally meaning "household goods, bedding, clothing," of obscure ultimate origin. This is first attested in medieval records, and according to Gijsseling, is therefore attested too late to be considered a substrate word. Due to the lack of obvious cognates in other languages from which it would have been loaned, it could have developed as some slang word in Lower Saxony/the Low Countries. Cognate with Dutch plunderen, West Frisian plonderje, Saterland Frisian plunnerje. Probably denominal from a word for “household goods, clothes, bedding”; compare Middle Dutch plunder, German Plunder (“stuff”), Dutch and West Frisian plunje (“clothes”). The Philippine definitions originate with the Anti-Plunder Act, an act of Congress enacted in 1991.
substantivo
- 1
An instance of plundering.
- 2
The loot attained by plundering.
The Hessian kept his choicest plunder in a sack that never left his person, for fear that his comrades would steal it.
- 3
antiquadoBaggage; luggage.
[…] till a long-legged boy brought him out of his revery, by an offer to carry his “plunder,” in whatsoever direction he might desire to direct his steps.
- 4
The commission of plunder (verb definition 6).
Formas
- pretérito
- plundered
- particípio passado
- plundered
- gerúndio
- plundering
- 3.ª pessoa do singular
- plunders
plunder · To pillage, take or destroy all the goods of, by force (as in war); to raid, sack.
plunge · To thrust into liquid, or into any penetrable substance; to…plural · Consisting of or containing more than one of something.plus · And; sum of the previous one and the following one.