Pillage — Defs

01 n. The act of pillaging; robbery.

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The act of pillaging; robbery.
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.

-- 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.

02 v. i. To strip of money or goods by open violence; to plunder; to spoil; to lay waste; as, to pillage the camp of an enemy.

imp. & p. p. Pillaged; p. pr. & vb. n. Pillaging

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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.

03 v. i. To take spoil; to plunder; to ravage.

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To take spoil; to plunder; to ravage.
“They were suffered to pillage wherever they went.” — Macaulay.