To take the property of another without observing the decent and customary reticences of theft. To effect a change of ownership with the candid concomitance of a brass band. To wrest the wealth of A from B and leave C lamenting a vanishing opportunity.
To take the goods of by force, or without right; to pillage; to spoil; to sack; to strip; to rob; as, to plunder travelers.
To take by pillage; to appropriate forcibly; as, the enemy plundered all the goods they found.
The act of plundering or pillaging; robbery. See Syn. of Pillage.
That which is taken by open force from an enemy; pillage; spoil; booty; also, that which is taken by theft or fraud.
To rob of goods by force; pillage. To seize wrongfully or by force; steal. Property stolen by fraud or force; booty.
plunder (a town) after capture; "the barbarians sacked Rome"
steal goods; take as spoils; "During the earthquake people looted the stores that were deserted by their owners"