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Pillage

Pillage Meaning & Definition
Pillage Definition And Meaning

What's The Definition Of Pillage?

[n] the act of stealing valuable things from a place; "the plundering of Rome"; "his plundering of the great authors"
[n] goods or money obtained illegally
[v] steal goods; take as spoils; "During the earthquake people looted the stores that were deserted by their owners"

Synonyms | Synonyms for Pillage: booty | despoil | foray | loot | loot | pillaging | plunder | plunder | plundering | prize | ransack | reave | rifle | strip | swag

Related Terms | Find terms related to Pillage: abduct | appropriate | arrogate | assault | attack | banditry | barbarize | batter | booty | brigandage | brigandism | brutalize | buccaneering | burn | butcher | carry off | carry on | confiscate | defilement | demolish | demolition | depredate | depredation | desecrate | desolate | despoil | despoiling | despoilment | despoliation | destroy | destruction | devastate | devastation | devour | direption | encroach | filch | fleece | forage | foraging | foray | freeboot | freebooting | go on | gut | hammer | invade | kidnap | lay waste | laying waste | level | lift | loot | looting | maraud | marauding | maul | mug | nab | pilfer | pillaging | pinch | piracy | plunder | plundering | prey on | purloin | rage | raid | raiding | ramp | rampage | ransack | ransacking | rant | rape | rapine | ravage | ravagement | ravaging | rave | raven | ravish | ravishment | raze | razing | razzia | reive | reiving | rifle | rifling | riot | roar | rob | robbery | ruin | sack | sacking | savage | shanghai | slaughter | sow chaos | spoil | spoiling | spoils | spoliate | spoliation | storm | strip | stripping | sweep | swipe | tear | tear around | terrorize | thieve | throttle | trespass | usurp | vandalize | violate | waste | wreck

See Also | aggression | banditry | cut | deplume | depredation | despoilation | despoilment | despoliation | devastation | displume | hostility | looting | predation | rape | rapine | ravaging | robbery | spoil | spoilation | spoliation | stolen property | take

Pillage In Webster's Dictionary

\Pil"lage\, n. [F., fr. piller to plunder. See {Pill} to plunder.] 1. The act of pillaging; robbery. --Shak. 2. That which is taken from another or others by open force, particularly and chiefly from enemies in war; plunder; spoil; booty. Which pillage they with merry march bring home. --Shak. Syn: Plunder; rapine; spoil; depredation. Usage: {Pillage}, {Plunder}. Pillage refers particularly to the act of stripping the sufferers of their goods, while plunder refers to the removal of the things thus taken; but the words are freely interchanged.
\Pil"lage\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. {Pillaged}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Pillaging}.] To strip of money or goods by open violence; to plunder; to spoil; to lay waste; as, to pillage the camp of an enemy. Mummius . . . took, pillaged, and burnt their city. --Arbuthnot.
\Pil"lage\, v. i. To take spoil; to plunder; to ravage. They were suffered to pillage wherever they went. --Macaulay.

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