plundering

Speech parts

1. plundering - Noun

2. plundering - Verb

4. plundering - Adjective Satellite

Meaning

of Plunder

Source: Webster's dictionary

Synonyms

pillage pillaging violence hunting destruction strip attacking raid exploitation destructive rape steal stealing predation robbery
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Antonyms

guard herbivore support give construction pennyworth
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Hypernyms

aggression hostility

Hyponyms

rape predation robbery sack devastation spoil

Phrases with the word

plundering fixation

Examples

We can hold up under everything if only we have the certainty the monster Hitler with his insatiable bloodletting and plundering will have committed soon his last shameful deed. Friedrich Kellner

Money lending is a horrible profession. If we are to call it otherwise it is lawful plundering. Periyar E. V. Ramasamy

The worst readers are those who behave like plundering troops they take away a few things they can use, dirty and confound the remainder, and revile the whole. Friedrich Nietzsche

Sire, have pity on the Spanish infantry, which, for lack of pay and out of sheer starvation, is scouring the low country round, plundering the peasantry in mere need of food. These disorders I cannot repress, much less can I punish them, for necessity has no law. William the Silent

Wars have ever been but another aristocratic mode of plundering and oppressing commerce. Richard Cobden

Republicans and Democrats are obsessed with making sure that illegal aliens are granted citizenship. The American people are not. They're concerned about jobs, the economy, debt. They're concerned about a plundering country. They're concerned about a decaying, dying country. Rush Limbaugh

Close letter words and terms

plunderer fly plunderess plunderfish plundering fixation plunderless plunderous