Found 3 items, similar to Pillage.
English → Indonesian (quick)
Definition: pillage
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English → English (WordNet)
Definition: pillage
pillage
n 1: goods or money obtained illegally [syn:
loot,
booty,
plunder,
prize,
swag,
dirty money]
2: the act of stealing valuable things from a place;
“the
plundering of the Parthenon”;
“his plundering of the great
authors” [syn:
plundering,
pillaging]
pillage
v : steal goods; take as spoils;
“During the earthquake people
looted the stores that were deserted by their owners”
[syn:
plunder,
despoil,
loot,
reave,
strip,
rifle,
ransack,
foray]
English → English (gcide)
Definition: Pillage
Pillage
\Pil"lage\, n. [F., fr. piller to plunder. See
Pill to
plunder.]
1. The act of pillaging; robbery. --Shak.
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2. That which is taken from another or others by open force,
particularly and chiefly from enemies in war; plunder;
spoil; booty.
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Which pillage they with merry march bring home.
--Shak.
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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.
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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.
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Mummius . . . took, pillaged, and burnt their city.
--Arbuthnot.
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Pillage
\Pil"lage\, v. i.
To take spoil; to plunder; to ravage.
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They were suffered to pillage wherever they went.
--Macaulay.
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