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Pillage

Pillage (pillage)
n.(?)
Pil"lage
[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. -- 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.

Pillage

Pillage (pillage)
v. i.
Pil"lage
  1. 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.

Pillage

Pillage (pillage)
v. i.
Pil"lage
  1. To take spoil; to plunder; to ravage.

    They were suffered to pillage wherever they went. Macaulay.













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