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noun

Pillage n.

The act of pillaging; robbery.

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."

Synonyms: 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.

verb

Pillage v. i. (past & past part. pillaged; pres. part. 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."

Pillage v. i. To take spoil; to plunder; to ravage. "They were suffered to pillage wherever they went."

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... Northern people, or, at least, upon the Republican party. These men affected to see in John Brown, and his handful of followers, only the advance guard of another irruption of Goths and Vandals from the North, bent on inciting servile insurrection, on plunder, pillage, and devastation. Mr. Mason's committee found no sentiment in the North justifying Brown, but the irritating and offensive course of the Virginia senator called forth a great deal of defiant anti-slavery expression which, in his judgment, ...

— Twenty Years of Congress, Vol. 1 (of 2) • James Gillespie Blaine

... hands of the conquerors. The patrols were kept busy until the twentieth of January, when the Chileans marched triumphantly into Lima. The city presented a queer sight. From almost every house the flag of some foreign nation was flying, to save it from pillage and destruction; but scowling faces appeared at the windows. The first act of the Chilean army was to break in and rob the custom house. An attempt was made to restrain the men, but some awful scenes were enacted before it ...

— The Story of Paul Boyton - Voyages on All the Great Rivers of the World • Paul Boyton

... dishonest courses? Have I ever prompted you to dishonour your acceptances, or cheat your customers, or pile up money by fraudulent practices? Really, you'll end by making me quite angry! We are honest folks, and we don't pillage or assassinate anybody. That's quite sufficient. What other folks do is no concern of ours. If they choose to ...

— The Fat and the Thin • Emile Zola

... when the showering grapes In Bacchanal profusion reel to earth, Purple and gushing: sweet are our escapes From civic revelry to rural mirth; Sweet to the miser are his glittering heaps, Sweet to the father is his first-born's birth, Sweet is revenge—especially to women— Pillage to soldiers, ...

— The Works of Lord Byron, Volume 6 • Lord Byron

... proved herself to be a capital sailer, a quality her crew had counted on when they ventured to attack the Dunmore Castle, expecting to be able to pillage her and ...

— The Rival Crusoes • W.H.G. Kingston

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