“plunder” – English explanatory dictionary

noun booty, goods stolen, especially in wartime ○ The pirates returned from the voyage laden with plunder. (NOTE: no plural) ■ verb 1. to steal goods by force, especially in wartime ○ Many of the exhibits in the museum were plundered from foreign palaces and churches. 2. to take or use something that belongs to someone else for your own benefit ○ Half the ideas in his book were plundered from a book that came out in 1978.

a common word in the horse trade to express profit. Also an
American term for baggage, luggage. In Lower Canada the French packmen
call luggage “butin.”

v. t. [imp. & p. p. Plundered p. pr. & vb. n. Plundering.] [G. plündern 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.

n. 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.]