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Pillage

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.

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"

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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