Plundered
/ˈplʌn.dərd/noun
Taken by force, especially during war or a raid.
Did you know?The verb *plunder* entered English in the 17th century from German *plündern*, a war word tied to stripping a place bare, and its brutal history is why it still feels so violent today.
Etymological Timeline
Proto-Indo-European
PIE
*pleu-
“to flow, swim, float”
Middle Low German
MLG
plunderen
“to pillage, loot”
German
German
plündern
“to pillage, rob a place”
17th Century
English
plunder
“to rob or pillage, especially in wartime”
Modern English
English
plundered
“taken by force; robbed in a raid or war”
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