• PLUNDER

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• s. Robbery, raptus alicujus rei; rapina (the act of robbing; in the sense of raptum it is poetical): raptum (property that has been seized by robbers): praeda (game or booty): furtum (theft; also, stolen property): latrocinium (street-robbery).
• Booty, praeda; raptum. To live by plunder, vivere rapto.

2. v. diripere (to lay waste, destroy, etc. ☞ In good prose only as a military term): compilare, expilare (to take away by stealth): spoliare, despoliare, exspoliare (general terms, to deprive of): nudare (to strip): depeculari (to steal, embezzle): depopulari (to depopulate, lay waste). To plunder thoroughly, exbaurire, exinanire, nudum atque inanem reddere (to empty a house, etc.): evertere et extergere (i. e., to sweep and brush out, facete, Cic., Verr., 2, 21, 52). (The words are found in this connection and order.) nudare ac spoliare; spoliare nudareque; nudare et exinanire or exhaurire; spoliare et depeculari: to plunder the treasury, aerarium expilare, depeculari; (thoroughly) aerarium exinanire, exhaurire: to plunder a country, (also) praedam ex agris rapere or agere (agere especially of cattle).