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pillage |
4 definitions found From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Pillage \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. From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Pillage \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. From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Pillage \Pil"lage\, v. i. To take spoil; to plunder; to ravage. They were suffered to pillage wherever they went --Macaulay. From WordNet r 1.6 [wn]: pillage n 1: goods or money obtained illegally [syn: {loot}, {booty}, {plunder}, {prize}, {swag}] 2: the act of stealing valuable things from a place "the plundering of Rome"; "his plundering of the great authors" [syn: {plundering}, {pillaging}] v : steal goods; take as spoils; "During the earthquake people looted the stores that were deserted by their owners" [syn: {plunder}, {despoil}, {loot}, {reave}, {strip}, {rifle}, {ransack}, {foray}]
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