plunder

American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

1. v. To rob of goods by force, especially in time of war; pillage: plunder a village.
2. v. To seize wrongfully or by force; steal: plundered the supplies.
3. v. To take booty; rob.
4. n. The act or practice of plundering.
5. n. Property stolen by fraud or force; booty.

Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

1. n. Household or personal effects; baggage; luggage.
2. n. The act of plundering; robbery.
3. n. That which is taken from an enemy by force; pillage; prey; spoil; booty.
4. n. Hence, that which is taken by theft, robbery, or fraud: as, the cashier escaped with his plunder. Synonyms Booty, Spoil, etc. See pillage.
5. To take goods or valuables forcibly from; pillage; spoil; strip; rob.
6. To take by pillage or open force: as, the enemy plundered all the goods they found.
7. Synonyms To despoil, sack, rifle, ravage. See pillage, n.

Wiktionary

1. v. transitive To pillage, take or destroy all the goods of, by force (as in war); to raid, sack.
2. v. intransitive To take by force or wrongfully; to commit robbery or looting, to raid.
3. v. transitive To make extensive (over)use of, as if by plundering; to use or use up wrongfully.
4. n. An instance of plundering
5. n. The loot attained by plundering
6. n. slang, dated baggage; luggage

GNU Webster's 1913

1. v. To take the goods of by force, or without right; to pillage; to spoil; to sack; to strip; to rob.
2. v. To take by pillage; to appropriate forcibly.
3. n. The act of plundering or pillaging; robbery. See Syn. of pillage.
4. n. That which is taken by open force from an enemy; pillage; spoil; booty; also, that which is taken by theft or fraud.
5. n. Slang, Southwestern U.S. Personal property and effects; baggage or luggage.

WordNet 3.0

1. n. goods or money obtained illegally
2. v. destroy and strip of its possession
3. v. plunder (a town) after capture
4. v. steal goods; take as spoils
5. v. take illegally; of intellectual property