Front | plunder |
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Pron | ['plʌndər] |
Back | 【PLUNDER】 The pirates entered the harbor and began to plunder the town. 海盗进港后便开始抢劫此镇。 【重点词汇】 plunder v. 抢劫 |
Vocab | plundersteal goods; take as spoils
Plunder can mean stolen goods or money obtained illegally, like plunder that thieves hide somewhere, or the act of taking those things — a burglar who plunders the jewelry store. Plunder is an old Middle High German word that originally meant "household goods and clothes": in other words, your stuff. During the Thirty Years' War (1618-1648), English speakers acquired this word while fighting in the land that is today Germany, but with the added meaning of taking the plunder as, well, plunder. As both a noun and verb, a synonym for plunder is loot. All forms of 'plunder' will appear on average once every 380 pages. plunder plundered plunderer plundering |
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