Plunder

* The most common meaning is, to take property from persons or places by open force, as in the case of pirates or banditti. In another common meaning (in some degree figurative), expresses the idea of taking property from a person or place without just right, but not stating the nature or quality of the wrong done.' Embraces robbery and fraudulent taking, or embezzlement. Thus, a vessel may be said to be plundered, not only if openly attacked and robbed, but if property be taken from her furtively, in the night time, or after she has been abandoned by the crew."