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Definition of plundering : of Plunder

Synonyms:

plunder, booty, acquisitive, prize, swag, pillage, dirty money, loot, pillaging

hauling, nipping, extorting, stealing, fleecing, lifting, burglarizing, pilfering, embezzling, swiping, abstracting, holding up, copping, defrauding, sticking up, pocketing, heisting, swindling, mugging, plagiarizing, hijacking, poaching, looting, blackmailing, grabbing, filching, robbing, rustling, pirating, palming, shoplifting

Usage examples:

• The plundering Arabs agreed among themselves that any tourist giving a fixed sum to one of their leaders should be guaranteed against the unwelcome attentions of the rest. - "Fifty-One Years of Victorian Life", Margaret Elizabeth Leigh Child-Villiers, Countess of Jersey.
• When a member of the landed aristocracy, no matter how small, has a dispute with his ruler, he collects his followers, and levies indiscriminate war upon his territories, plundering and burning his towns and villages, and murdering their inhabitants till he is invited back upon his own terms. - "Rambles and Recollections of an Indian Official", William Sleeman.
• Thence the soldiers were led out to plunder, and the crews scattered about just as if they were plundering uninhabited islands and thus, carelessly falling upon an ambuscade, when they were surrounded- the ignorant of the country by those acquainted with it, the straggling by those in close array, they were driven back to then ships in ignominious flight, and with great carnage. - "The History of Rome; Books Nine to Twenty-Six", Titus Livius.