Pillage
['pɪlɪdʒ]
Definition
(n.) The act of pillaging; robbery.
(n.) That which is taken from another or others by open force, particularly and chiefly from enemies in war; plunder; spoil; booty.
(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.
(v. i.) To take spoil; to plunder; to ravage.
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Synonyms and Synonymous
n. [1]. Spoliation, depredation, destruction, devastation, plundering, rapine.[2]. Plunder, booty, spoil, prey.
v. a. Plunder, spoil, despoil, sack.
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Synonyms and Antonyms
[See PILFER]
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Definition
n. (Shak.) act of plundering: plunder: spoil esp. taken in war.—v.t. to plunder or spoil.—v.t. Pill to rob or plunder.—n. Pill′ager.
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Examples
- How many there are I did not ask; but I could not think of allowing them to pillage the house, as it were. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
- Conquerors have gone forth with the blessing of popes; a nation invokes its God before beginning a campaign of murder, rape and pillage. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
- In 389 A.D ne of the libraries at Alexandria was destroyed and its books were pillaged by t he Christians. Walter Libby. An Introduction to the History of Science.
- That gentleman's eye fell on his desk, pillaged. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
- Désirée was kept in some measure from the servants, but she teased and pillaged her mamma instead. Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
- They stormed the city and pillaged it (1527). H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- Promiscuous pillaging, however, was discouraged and punished. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
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