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Plundering vs Plunder - What's the difference?

plundering | plunder |

As verbs the difference between plundering and plunder

is that plundering is (plunder) while plunder is to pillage, take or destroy all the goods of, by force (as in war); to raid, sack.

As nouns the difference between plundering and plunder

is that plundering is the act of one who plunders; pillaging or looting; plunder while plunder is an instance of plundering.

plundering

English

Verb

(head)
  • Noun

    (en noun)
  • The act of one who plunders; pillaging or looting; plunder.
  • * 2005 , Michael L. Morgan, Classics of Moral and Political Theory (page 473)
  • Not all military exercises by human beings are forbidden. Rather, only disordered and dangerous military exercises that give rise to slayings and plunderings are forbidden.

    plunder

    English

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • 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.
  • To take (goods) by pillage.
  • The mercenaries plundered all the goods they found.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • * 2014 , , " 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 * plunderous

    Noun

    (-)
  • An instance of plundering
  • 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.
  • (slang, dated) baggage; luggage