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English Dictionary: pillage	by the DICT Development Group
4 results for pillage
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
pillage n goods or money obtained illegally [syn: loot, booty, pillage, plunder, prize, swag, dirty money] 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 v steal goods; take as spoils; "During the earthquake people looted the stores that were deserted by their owners" Synonym(s): plunder, despoil, loot, reave, strip, rifle, ransack, pillage, foray
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Pillage \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.
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.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Pillage \Pil"lage\, v. i. To take spoil; to plunder; to ravage. They were suffered to pillage wherever they went. --Macaulay.