plunder | (noun) goods or money obtained illegally | Synonyms: booty, dirty money, loot, pillage, prize, swag |
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(verb) destroy and strip of its possession | Synonyms: despoil, rape, spoil, violate |
(verb) steal goods; take as spoils | Synonyms: despoil, foray, loot, pillage, ransack, reave, rifle, strip |
(verb) plunder (a town) after capture | Synonyms: sack |
(verb) take illegally; of intellectual property | Synonyms: loot |
plunderage | (noun) the act of plundering (especially the embezzlement of goods on shipboard) | - |
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plundered | (adjective) wrongfully emptied or stripped of anything of value | Synonyms: looted, pillaged, ransacked |
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plunderer | (noun) someone who takes spoils or plunder (as in war) | Synonyms: despoiler, freebooter, looter, pillager, raider, spoiler |
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plundering | (adjective) given to taking by force what is desired | - |
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(noun) the act of stealing valuable things from a place | Synonyms: pillage, pillaging |
plunge | (noun) a brief swim in water | Synonyms: dip |
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(noun) a steep and rapid fall | - |
(verb) begin with vigor | Synonyms: launch |
(verb) devote (oneself) fully to | Synonyms: absorb, engross, engulf, immerse, soak up, steep |
(verb) cause to be immersed | Synonyms: immerse |
(verb) immerse briefly into a liquid so as to wet, coat, or saturate | Synonyms: dip, douse, dunk, souse |
(verb) thrust or throw into | Synonyms: immerse |
(verb) fall abruptly | Synonyms: dump |
(verb) drop steeply | Synonyms: dive, plunk |
(verb) dash violently or with great speed or impetuosity | - |
plunger | (noun) mechanical device that has a plunging or thrusting motion | Synonyms: piston |
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(noun) hand tool consisting of a stick with a rubber suction cup at one end; used to clean clogged drains | Synonyms: plumber's helper |
(noun) someone who risks losses for the possibility of considerable gains | Synonyms: speculator |
(noun) someone who dives (into water) | Synonyms: diver |
plunk | (noun) (baseball) hitting a baseball so that it drops suddenly | Synonyms: plunker |
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(noun) a hollow twanging sound | - |
(adverb) with a short hollow thud | Synonyms: plop |
(verb) pull lightly but sharply with a plucking motion | Synonyms: pick, pluck |
(verb) set (something or oneself) down with or as if with a noise | Synonyms: flump, plank, plonk, plop, plump, plump down, plunk down |
(verb) drop steeply | Synonyms: dive, plunge |
(verb) make or move along with a sound as of a horse's hooves striking the ground | Synonyms: clop, clump, clunk |
plunker | (noun) (baseball) hitting a baseball so that it drops suddenly | Synonyms: plunk |
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