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English Dictionary: pillaging by the DICT Development Group
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From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
pillaging
n
  1. the act of stealing valuable things from a place; "the plundering of the Parthenon"; "his plundering of the great authors"
    Synonym(s): plundering, pillage, pillaging
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.
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