Plunder

plunder



see pillage







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–verb (used with object) 

1. to rob of goods or valuables by open force, as in war, hostile raids, brigandage (搶劫;土匪行為), etc.: 



to plunder a [town].  



2. to rob, despoil, or fleece: 



to plunder the [public treasury].  



3. to take wrongfully, as by pillage, robbery, or fraud: to plunder a piece of property.  



–verb (used without object) 

4. to take plunder; pillage.  



–noun 

5. plundering, pillage, or spoliation. 

6. that which is taken in plundering; loot. 

7. anything taken by robbery, theft, or fraud.  



—Synonyms 

1. rape, ravage, sack, devastate. 5. rapine, robbery. 6. booty, spoils.





　

When Squid and the Whale came out, Baumbach was branded a whiny narcissist in some quarters—a sneak thief ransacking his own broken home for self-serving material—and some critics at the Toronto film festival this year took Margot as a scathing matricidal [affront]. 



If we insist on reading the movie as autobiography, it would seem that Margot—



a writer who plunders [her family troubles] for a New Yorker story and faces the music



—is more a directorial surrogate, and the movie an act of penance. But that just reduces one of the most perceptive films of this year to inside baseball. As a stroke of luck, this blast of homecoming claustrophobia is being released for the holidays, when it may prove therapeutic. Bring the family. Or better yet, leave them.





heist rifle pillage 

loitering 

larceny kleptomania felon

plunder 



plunder 

chicanery fleece 

charlatan decoy fudge

beguile 



cajole





scathe affront surrogate penance