Scuff vs Plunder - What's the difference?
scuff | plunder |
Caused by scraping, usually with one's feet.
To mishit (a shot on a ball) due to poor contact with the ball.
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, title=Wales 2-1 Montenegro
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To scrape the feet while walking.
To hit lightly, to brush against.
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, date=December 29
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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
As verbs the difference between scuff and plunder
is that scuff is to mishit (a shot on a ball) due to poor contact with the ball while plunder is .As an adjective scuff
is caused by scraping, usually with one's feet.As a noun scuff
is the back part of the neck; the scruff.scuff
English
Adjective
(-)- Someone left scuff marks in the sand.
Verb
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Derived terms
* scuff markSee also
* scoff * scruffAnagrams
*plunder
English
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.