Tikibu: pronunciation dictionary with use examples

Word: plundered
IPA transcription: [pl'ʌndɚd]
adverb meaning of the word
  • Synonyms: looted, pillaged, plundered, ransacked
    Meaning: wrongfully emptied or stripped of anything of value; "the robbers left the looted train"; "people returned to the plundered village"
Usage examples
  • So the barrow was plundered, borne off was booty.
  • These he plundered of what was for his turn, kept them a fortnight by him, and let them go.
  • Wherever they passed they not merely plundered to right and left, but slew off the whole population.
  • Tempted by the hope of booty, he came immediately, and finding Rome abandoned, plundered the city during fourteen days.
  • Unless he is grossly belied, he preferred to compromise than fight, and did not always disdain to court the ruffians who plundered him.
  • A pale light, rising in the outer air, fell straight upon the bed; and on it, plundered and bereft, unwatched, unwept, uncared for, was the body of this man.
  • Setting sail on the 22nd July, 1586, he passed by the Canaries, and landed at Sierra Leone, which town he attacked and plundered; then, sailing again, he crossed the Atlantic, sighted Cape Sebastian in Brazil, sailed along the coast of Patagonia, and arrived on the 27th November at Port Desire.