PLUNDERED

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does plundered mean? 

• PLUNDERED (adjective)
  The adjective PLUNDERED has 1 sense:

1. wrongfully emptied or stripped of anything of value

  Familiarity information: PLUNDERED used as an adjective is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• PLUNDERED (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Wrongfully emptied or stripped of anything of value

Synonyms:

looted; pillaged; plundered; ransacked

Context example:

people returned to the plundered village

Similar:

empty (holding or containing nothing)

 Context examples 

These crosses stand for the names of ships or towns that they sank or plundered.

(Treasure Island, by Robert Louis Stevenson)

That Mr. W. has been for years deluded and plundered, in every conceivable manner, to the pecuniary aggrandisement of the avaricious, false, and grasping—HEEP.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

A stream of returning knights, of wounded soldiers, and of unransomed French noblemen, had been for a quarter of a century continually pouring into England, every one of whom exerted an influence in the direction of greater domestic refinement, while shiploads of French furniture from Calais, Rouen, and other plundered towns, had supplied our own artisans with models on which to shape their work.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)