Plunder vs Corruption - What's the difference?
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To pillage, take or destroy all the goods of, by force (as in war); to raid, sack.
To take (goods) by pillage.
To take by force or wrongfully; to commit robbery or looting, to raid.
To make extensive (over)use of, as if by plundering; to use or use up wrongfully.
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An instance of plundering
The loot attained by plundering
(slang, dated) baggage; luggage
The act of corrupting or of impairing integrity, virtue, or moral principle; the state of being corrupted or debased; loss of purity or integrity; depravity; wickedness; impurity; bribery.
* (Henry Hallam) The Constitutional History of England
* (George Bancroft)
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, title= The act of corrupting or making putrid, or state of being corrupt or putrid; decomposition or disorganization, in the process of putrefaction; putrefaction; deterioration.
The product of corruption; putrid matter.
The decomposition of biological matter.
Bribing.
(computing) The destruction of data by manipulation of parts of it, either by deliberate or accidental human action or by imperfections in storage or transmission media.
The act of changing, or of being changed, for the worse; departure from what is pure, simple, or correct; as, a corruption of style; corruption in language.
(linguistics) A debased or nonstandard form of a word, expression, or text, resulting from misunderstanding, transcription error, mishearing, etc.
Something that is evil but is supposed to be good.
* (Francis Bacon)
As nouns the difference between plunder and corruption
is that plunder is an instance of plundering while corruption is the act of corrupting or of impairing integrity, virtue, or moral principle; the state of being corrupted or debased; loss of purity or integrity; depravity; wickedness; impurity; bribery.As a verb plunder
is to pillage, take or destroy all the goods of, by force (as in war); to raid, sack.plunder
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Verb
(en verb)- ''The mercenaries plundered the small town.
- The shopkeeper was plundered of his possessions by the burglar.
- The mercenaries plundered all the goods they found.
- ''"Now to plunder , mateys!" screamed a buccaneer, to cries of "Arrgh!" and "Aye!" all around.
- ''The miners plundered the jungle for its diamonds till it became a muddy waste.
Southampton hammer eight past hapless Sunderland in barmy encounter", The Guardian , 18 October 2014:
- The Serb teed up Steve Davis, who crossed low for Graziano Pellè to plunder his fifth league goal of the campaign.
Derived terms
* plunderable * plunderage * plunderer * plunderousNoun
(-)- ''The Hessian kept his choicest plunder in a sack that never left his person, for fear that his comrades would steal it.
corruption
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(wikipedia corruption)Noun
- It was necessary, by exposing the gross corruptions of monasteries, . . . to exite popular indignation against them.
- They abstained from some of the worst methods of corruption usual to their party in its earlier days.
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- The inducing and accelerating of putrefaction is a subject of very universal inquiry; for corruption is a reciprocal to generation.
