Thesaurus results for PLUNDERED

plundered

verb

past tense of plunder

as in looted

to search through with the intent of committing robbery the escaped convict plundered the house in search of valuables

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Recent Examples of plundered As long as the contents of a container have not been plundered outright, they can even be delivered to the recipient after an accident, albeit with some delay. — Alexander Klose, Scientific American, 24 July 2026 The Stuttgart striker plundered two second-half goals, including a stoppage-time winner, to earn his side a place in the last 32. — Jacob Whitehead, New York Times, 20 June 2026 Which were left to be plundered and destroyed? — Amer Matar, The Dial, 26 May 2026 But Klaasen didn’t hold back and shared an 80-run stand with Nitish Kumar Reddy, who made 21, and then Salil Arora (30 not out) plundered three sixes and two fours as Hyderabad notched its fifth straight win. — ABC News, 29 Apr. 2026 Five years after the Halifax Resolves were adopted, the British army briefly occupied the town and plundered its homes, according to the North Carolina Division of State Historic Sites and Properties. — Karissa Waddick, USA Today, 25 Apr. 2026 Magyar has called for all of Orbán’s cronies in the government to resign and has committed to holding to account those who plundered Hungary. — Elizabeth Shackelford, Chicago Tribune, 17 Apr. 2026 The collapse of Prospect Medical, a for-profit hospital chain plundered by private equity and the company’s management, has generated a painful litany of woes. — Peter Elkind, ProPublica, 9 Apr. 2026 Before being definitively plundered, the museum was home to the most comprehensive Nubian archaeological collection in the world. — News Desk, Artforum, 17 Mar. 2026

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Los Angeles County deputies say that an AutoZone in East Los Angeles was found looted early Saturday morning, near the spot where a street takeover had taken place.

— Dean Fioresi, CBS News, 9 Aug. 2026
In addition to missile targeting, Russia has also looted thousands of Ukrainian cultural objects since the beginning of the war.

— News Desk, Artforum, 7 Aug. 2026

Definition of looted

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But Nolan also throws a meditative new wrinkle into the story, as Odysseus comes to grips with his role in the Trojan War, leading the charge as his men raped, murdered and pillaged in his name.

— Patrick Ryan, USA Today, 18 July 2026
For decades, tomb raiders have pillaged sites across the country, selling them on the black market.

— Barbie Latza Nadeau, CNN Money, 19 June 2026

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One looks to the story of the Haitian World Cup team, appearing in the tournament for the first time in fifty years, which has gathered expatriate players from the Haitian diaspora to play for that beautiful and utterly despoiled country, where many of them have never lived.

— Adam Gopnik, New Yorker, 21 June 2026
In the 21st century, oil extraction has become a serious threat to Ecuadoran Amazonia, with large swaths of forest, often located in Indigenous territories, despoiled by the release of wastewater from the wells.

— Stanley Stewart, Travel + Leisure, 10 Jan. 2026

Definition of despoiled

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One thing Taylor won't like is that Burrow was sacked once and then hit while throwing on third-and-4 from the Lions 38 during the second series.

— CBS News, CBS News, 14 Aug. 2026
Norwich just missed out on that position, coming ninth, but head coach Liam Manning was nowhere to be seen by then, having been sacked in November with his team second-bottom of the table.

— Richard Sutcliffe, New York Times, 14 Aug. 2026

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Members of the Montreal City Police Department found the weapon, a Glock 26, on August 30, 2024, when officers raided a home in relation to a kidnapping investigation, court records show.

— Mark Morales, CNN Money, 9 Aug. 2026
This has been an issue discussed by many across the ACC and Big 12 in previous weeks, wondering aloud what this would prevent in terms of being raided by the others, most notably the SEC.

— Trey Wallace OutKick, FOXNews.com, 8 Aug. 2026

Definition of raided

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