To lay siege to.
To surround, accompany, or attend.
To spend money, time, or energy on something, especially for some benefit or purpose; used with in.
To commit money or capital in the hope of financial gain.
To ceremonially install someone in some office.
To be involved in; to form strong attachments to.
To prepare for lost wax casting by creating an investment mold (a mixture of a silica sand and plaster).
To make investments.
To formally give (someone) some power or authority.
To envelop, wrap, cover.
To formally give (power or authority).
An unnamed tropical weather pattern "to investigate" for development into a significant (named) system.
To pillage, take or destroy all the goods of, by force (as in war); to raid, sack.
To take by force or wrongfully; to commit robbery or looting, to raid.
To take unexpectedly.
To make extensive (over)use of, as if by plundering; to use or use up wrongfully.
To take (goods) by pillage.
The loot attained by plundering.
An instance of plundering.