Thesaurus: pillage

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1. n. The act of pillaging; robbery.
2. n. That which is taken from another or others by open force, particularly and chiefly from enemies in war; plunder; spoil; booty.
3. 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.
4. v. i. To take spoil; to plunder; to ravage.
5. n. goods or money obtained illegally
6. n. the act of stealing valuable things from a place
7. v. steal goods; take as spoils
8. 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. -- 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. 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. To take spoil; to plunder; to ravage. They were suffered to pillage wherever they went. Macaulay.
9. To strip of money or goods by open violence; to plunder; tospoil; to lay waste; as, to pillage the camp of an enemy.Mummius . . . took, pillaged, and burnt their city. Arbuthnot.
10. n:22/v:78 n goods or money obtained illegally n the act of stealing valuable things from a place v steal goods; take as spoils