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 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 The area has been plundered for centuries. — Bilge Ebiri, Vulture, 6 Mar. 2026

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In May of this year, the Commission for the Compensation of Victims of Spoliation (CIVS), which determines if artworks were Nazi-looted, failed to reach a definitive conclusion.

— News Desk, Artforum, 30 June 2026
Though it had been looted by kids, most of the material was eventually recovered.

— Andres Viglucci, Miami Herald, 30 June 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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Officials with the Federal Bureau of Investigations raided an election hub in Fulton County at the beginning of the year, seizing hundreds of boxes of ballots and tally sheets from election workers.

— Irene Wright, USA Today, 8 July 2026
Subpoenas were issued June 8, the same day FBI agents raided both men’s houses and the assessor’s office.

— Jakob Rodgers, Mercury News, 7 July 2026

Definition of raided

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Royal forces ransacked every ship that arrived at Alexandria, searching for scrolls.

— Rose Horowitch, The Atlantic, 8 July 2026
Some people climbed a lifeguard tower, while others ran through traffic and ransacked stalls where artisans sold their goods, police said at the time.

— Nathaniel Percy, Oc Register, 7 July 2026

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