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Past tense of plunder

regular verb

The past tense of plunder is plundered. The past participle is also plundered.

Forms of plunder

Base form (V1)plunder /ˈplʌndə/
Past tense (V2)plundered
Past participle (V3)plundered
Present participleplundering
Third person singularplunders

Plundered in a sentence

  • The mercenaries plundered the small town.
  • The shopkeeper was plundered of his possessions by the burglar.
  • The two are handmaking mirrors, sculptures and furnishings from salvaged materials (or “plundered trash,” as Mr.2009 June 11, Penelope Green, “Save That Driftwood for Them”, in New York Times. From the entry handmake
  • The following year Muslim armies plundered the Tagus valley while Leónese forces, working in co-operation with the Caliph al-Mansur and the kingdom of Navarre, attacked from the west.2013, Nicholas Morton, “The struggle for Spain, 1195–1232”, in The Medieval Military Orders, 1120–1314, Abingdon, Oxfordshire; New York…. From the entry Leónese
  • I mock them all who have served me ill of late and chiefly this cheat of Judah, whose temple we have plundered and whose golden vessels are my wash-pots.1924, H. Rider Haggard, Belshazzar. From the entry serve

Meaning of plunder

  1. verb To pillage, take or destroy all the goods of, by force (as in war); to raid, sack.
  2. verb To take (goods) by pillage.
  3. verb To take by force or wrongfully; to commit robbery or looting, to raid.

Full definition of plunder

Questions about the past tense of plunder

What is the past tense of plunder?
The past tense of plunder is plundered.
What is the past participle of plunder?
The past participle of plunder is plundered.
Is plunder a regular or irregular verb?
Plunder is a regular verb: its past tense adds -ed.

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Adapted from Wiktionary: plunder (page history and authors) and the entries of its forms. Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws left out forms marked obsolete, archaic, rare or dialectal and added the examples. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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