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单词 replunder
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replunderv.

Brit. /ˌriːˈplʌndə/, U.S. /riˈpləndər/
Forms: see re- prefix and plunder v.2
Origin: Formed within English, by derivation. Etymons: re- prefix, plunder v.2
Etymology: < re- prefix + plunder v.2
transitive. To plunder again (in various senses).
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the mind > possession > taking > stealing or theft > robbery > sacking, raiding, or looting > sack, raid, or loot [verb (transitive)] > again
replunder1648
1648 Englands Petition to King Charles 3 Do You not know that our houses are replundred, and the fruit of our new labours taken from us?
1655 T. Fuller Hist. Univ. Cambr. i. 8 in Church-hist. Brit. To crie quits with the Barons, William Earl of Sarisbury, and Falk de Brent..replundred Cambridgeshire.
1798 T. R. Bentley Considerations State of Public Affairs I. 38 The corporation property..has been sold and re-sold, plundered and replundered.
1801 Times 25 Nov. 2/3 The Peace has prevented..the plunder of Naples and Portugal, (not to say Spain) which would have been re-plundered.
1878 R. M. Ballantyne In Track of Troops (2004) xxvi. 219 Most of the village was a smoking ruin, and liable at any moment to be replundered by the irregular troops of both sides.
1962 Jrnl. Egyptian Archaeol. 48 1 Unfortunately many of the large tombs had been re-plundered recently and these on examination were almost always found empty.
1997 G. Reiger Striped Bass Chron. x. 129 Maryland led other Atlantic states in adopting significant conservation measures... Now it's leading the charge to replunder the resource.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2009; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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