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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Plunder \Plun"der\, verb (used with an object) [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.
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Plunder \Plun"der\, noun
1. The act of plundering or pillaging; robbery. See Syn. of {Pillage}.
Inroads and plunders of the Saracens. --Sir T. North.
2. That which is taken by open force from an enemy; pillage; spoil; booty; also, that which is taken by theft or fraud. ''He shared in the plunder.'' --Cowper.
3. Personal property and effects; baggage or luggage. [Slang, Southwestern U.S.]
From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:
plunder
noun: goods or money obtained illegally [syn: {loot}, {booty}, {pillage}, {prize}, {swag}, {dirty money}]
verb
1: take illegally; of intellectual property; "This writer plundered from famous authors" [syn: {loot}]
2: plunder (a town) after capture; "the barbarians sacked Rome" [syn: {sack}]
3: steal goods; take as spoils; "During the earthquake people looted the stores that were deserted by their owners" [syn: {despoil}, {loot}, {reave}, {strip}, {rifle}, {ransack}, {pillage}, {foray}]
4: destroy and strip of its possession; "The soldiers raped the beautiful country" [syn: {rape}, {spoil}, {despoil}, {violate}]
From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:
88 Moby Thesaurus words for "plunder": banditry, blackmail, boodle, booty, brigandage, brigandism, capture, depredate, depredation, desolate, despoil, despoiling, despoilment, despoliation, devastate, direption, fleece, forage, foraging, foray, freeboot, freebooting, graft, gut, haul, hot goods, knock off, knock over, lay waste, loot, looting, maraud, marauding, perks, perquisite, pickings, pillage, pillaging, pirate, plundering, pork barrel, prey on, prize, public till, public trough, raid, raiding, ransack, ransacking, rape, rapine, ravage, ravagement, ravaging, raven, ravish, ravishment, razzia, reive, reiving, relieve, rifle, rifling, rob, robbery, sack, sacking, seize, spoil, spoiling, spoils, spoils of office, spoliate, spoliation, squeeze, stealings, stick up, stolen goods, strip, swag, sweep, take, things, till, traps, tricks, vandalism, vandalize
From THE DEVIL'S DICTIONARY ((C)1911 Released April 15 1993) [devils]:
PLUNDER, v. To take the property of another without observing the decent and customary reticences of theft. To effect a change of ownership with the candid concomitance of a brass band. To wrest the wealth of A from B and leave C lamenting a vanishing opportunity.
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