Meaning of PILLAGING

Pronunciation:			p'ilijing
WordNet Dictionary
	Definition:		[n]  the act of stealing valuable things from a place; "the plundering of Rome"; "his plundering of the great authors"
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	Synonyms:		pillage, plundering
	See Also:		aggression, banditry, depredation, despoilation, despoilment, despoliation, devastation, hostility, looting, predation, rape, rapine, ravaging, robbery, spoil, spoilation, spoliation
Thesaurus Terms
	Related Terms:		assault, attack, banditry, battering, brigandage, brigandism, butchery, depredation, despoiling, despoilment, despoliation, direption, disorderliness, foraging, foray, forcible seizure, freebooting, killing, laying waste, looting, marauding, massacre, obstreperousness, onslaught, pillage, plunder, plundering, plunderous, predacious, predacity, predatory, raid, raiding, ransacking, rapaciousness, rapacity, rape, rapine, ravage, ravagement, ravaging, ravenousness, ravishment, razzia, reiving, rifling, riot, rioting, sack, sacking, sharkishness, slaughter, sowing with salt, spoiling, spoliation, spoliatory, unruliness, violation, wolfishness