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Plunder Goods Taking Word Plʌndər Pirates Entered Harbor

Front plunder
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.
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