plunder

1. 1.

   goods or money obtained illegally

   Synonymslootbootypillageprizeswagdirty money

   Broaderstolen property

   Partscut

Other forms of plunder

plural

plunders·

past tense

plunderred·

present participle

plunderring·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about plunder

What does plunder mean?

plunder means "take illegally; of intellectual property". That is the primary sense; the word has 5 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in plunder?

plunder has 2 syllables: plun-der. The stress falls on "plun". In IPA it is /ˈplʌndɚ/.

What is another word for plunder?

Close synonyms include loot, sack, despoil, loot, reave. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is plunder a common word?

plunder is banded "Familiar" — widely understood, used when the subject calls for it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.