Definition: plundering

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Source: WordNet (r) 1.7 

plundering
     adj : given to taking by force what is desired
     n : the act of stealing valuable things from a place; "the
         plundering of Rome"; "his plundering of the great
         authors" [syn: pillage, pillaging]

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) 

Plunder \Plun"der\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Plundered; p. pr. &
   vb. n. Plundering.] [G. pl["u]ndern to plunder, plunder
   frippery, baggage.]
   1. To take the goods of by force, or without right; to
      pillage; to spoil; to sack; to strip; to rob; as, to
      plunder travelers.

            Nebuchadnezzar plunders the temple of God. --South.

   2. To take by pillage; to appropriate forcibly; as, the enemy
      plundered all the goods they found.

   Syn: To pillage; despoil; sack; rifle; strip; rob.