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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The sculptures were among 34 Southeast Asian antiquities voluntarily relinquished by the collector in 2021 after investigators determined they had been looted.

— ABC News, ABC News, 23 July 2026
Weapons and gear will be looted throughout the run, but cannot be extracted.

— Paul Tassi, Forbes.com, 21 July 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

Definition of pillaged

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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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In July, the South African Football Association (SAFA) issued two separate statements, the first dismissing reports that Broos had been sacked from his role, with the second statement denying he had been offered a one-year contract extension.

— Leon Imber, New York Times, 31 July 2026
People can and should be skeptical about the sonnets written about starting NFL quarterbacks every offseason, when no one is getting sacked and almost everyone looks good.

— Scott Fowler, Charlotte Observer, 30 July 2026

Definition of sacked

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In Missouri, police agreed to pay $750,000 after officers raided a family’s home over an unpaid gas bill and shot and killed Kiya, the family’s four-year-old pit bull.

— Vanessa Shakib, Oc Register, 23 July 2026
Law enforcement officers eventually raided A Community Funeral Home in November 2025, according to Click2Houston and KTRK.

— Kimberlee Speakman, PEOPLE, 23 July 2026

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