Meaning of PILLAGE
| Pronunciation: | | 'pilij
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- [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"
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| | Synonyms: | | booty, despoil, foray, loot, loot, pillaging, plunder, plunder, plundering, prize, ransack, reave, rifle, strip, swag |
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| | 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 | |
| Webster's 1913 Dictionary |
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\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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| | Related Terms: | | 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 |
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