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plundering
WORDNET DICTIONARY
Noun plundering has 1 sense
- plundering(n = noun.act) pillage, pillaging - the act of stealing valuable things from a place; "the plundering of the Parthenon"; "his plundering of the great authors" is a kind of aggression, hostility
has particulars: banditry, rape, rapine, looting, robbery, despoilation, despoilment, despoliation, spoil, spoilation, spoliation, devastation, ravaging, depredation, predation, sack
Derived forms verb plunder4, verb plunder3, verb plunder2
Adjective plundering has 1 sense
THESAURUS
plundering
banditry, brigandage, brigandism, depredation, despoiling, despoilment, despoliation, direption, foraging, foray, freebooting, looting, marauding, pillage, pillaging, plunder, plunderous, predacious, predatory, raid, raiding, ransacking, rape, rapine, ravage, ravagement, ravaging, ravishment, razzia, reiving, rifling, sack, sacking, spoiling, spoliation, spoliatory
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