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 class-action deal covers relatives of people who donated bodies between January 2018 and March 2023, amid uncertainty over which cadavers Lodge plundered before cremation or return to families. — Leah Willingham, Los Angeles Times, 21 Aug. 2026 There is depth and detail that can be navigated and known, probed and plundered for rewards — and the best way to do all of that is with a manual telescope. — Jamie Carter, Space.com, 18 Aug. 2026 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

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But his house had been looted, his belongings, including two decades’ worth of journals, redistributed or destroyed.

— Rachel Aviv, New Yorker, 17 Aug. 2026
The drum topped a list of 148 objects that Côte d’Ivoire requested from France in 2019; the petition followed French President Emmanuel Macron’s 2017 pledge to return works of art looted in Africa during the colonial era.

— Anne Doran, ARTnews.com, 10 Aug. 2026

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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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Come the end of the season, Frank had been sacked and Tottenham only just stayed up.

— Michael Cox, New York Times, 26 Aug. 2026
The Jayhawks trailed by six and got the ball at their 11 with 17 seconds left, but Missouri sealed the 36-28 victory with a safety when Lorenzo Williams sacked Reesing in the end zone.

— Pete Grathoff, Kansas City Star, 25 Aug. 2026

Definition of sacked

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That summer, Detroit was paralyzed by a violent uprising, which erupted after the city’s predominantly white police force raided a night club in a Black neighborhood.

— Rozina Ali, New Yorker, 21 Aug. 2026
Court records show that only one of the suits, on behalf of a woman and three children whose apartment was allegedly raided three separate times, remains open.

— Caroline Kubzansky, Chicago Tribune, 19 Aug. 2026

Definition of raided

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Thieves ransacked Spain‘s Villena Museum, taking with them one of Europe’s most significant Bronze Age gold collections in a record four-minute heist on Thursday morning, the Guardian reported.

— Hikmat Mohammed, ARTnews.com, 27 Aug. 2026
In the days after a group of South Florida friends were killed in a helicopter crash in Kenya, burglars ransacked the Coral Gables home of two of the dead, stealing more than $500,000 worth of artwork, jewelry and the couple’s cars, police say.

— David Goodhue, Miami Herald, 26 Aug. 2026

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