plundering
pluhn duh ring
- n the act of stealing valuable things from a place
the plundering of the Parthenon
his plundering of the great authors - v take illegally; of intellectual property
- v plunder (a town) after capture
- v steal goods; take as spoils
- v destroy and strip of its possession
- s given to taking by force what is desired
- The Marcos plundering seems ultimately a cheerless affair, covert though sometimes ostentatious, avaricious though often prodigal.
- He turned down new Russia's highest state award to protest "the all-out plundering of the country" he felt had been condoned by the post-Soviet regime.
- But you don't have to be a genius to see the true utility of manufacturing headless creatures: for their organs--fully formed, perfectly useful, ripe for plundering.