verb (used with object)
verb (used without object)
- plunge basin,
- plunge bath,
- plunge pool
Origin of plunder
Examples from the Web for plunderer
The Turk has always been a plunderer and has cursed everything he touched.Birdseye Views of Far Lands|James T. Nichols
In Warsaw there was much misery, for the plunderer had worked conscription and seizure to its furthest limit.Little Journeys to the Homes of the Great - Volume 14|Elbert Hubbard
A very small time after our plunderer met with an old shepherd, who had sold a good parcel of sheep.
The unregenerate Teuton was a pirate and a plunderer; the settled Saxon became an oversea trader and trafficker.The Annals of Willenhall|Frederick William Hackwood
Brian was no long time in learning that the Dark Master had spread word of him as a plunderer and Parliament man.Nuala O'Malley|H. Bedford-Jones
Word Origin for plunder
1630s, from German plündern, from Middle High German plunderen "to plunder," originally "to take away household furniture," from plunder (n.) "household goods, clothes," also "lumber, baggage" (14c.; cf. Modern German Plunder "lumber, trash"), which is related to Middle Dutch plunder "household goods;" Frisian and Dutch plunje "clothes." A word acquired by English via the Thirty Years War and applied in native use after the outbreak of the English Civil War in 1642. Related: Plundered; plundering. Plunderbund was a U.S. colloquial word from 1914 referring to "a corrupt alliance of corporate and financial interests," with German Bund "alliance, league."
"goods taken by force; act of plundering," 1640s, from plunder (v.).