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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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"Pillage" Quotes from Famous Books

... Guthorn had led to the battle the whole fighting force of the Danes in Wessex and East Anglia. This was far smaller than it would have been a year earlier; but the Northmen, having once completed their work of pillage, soon turned to fresh fields of adventure. Those whose disposition led them to prefer a quiet life had settled upon the land from which they had dispossessed the Saxons; but the principal bands of rovers, finding that England was exhausted and that no more plunder could be had, had either ...

— The Dragon and the Raven - or, The Days of King Alfred • G. A. Henty

... him grudge, when suddenly in the night he was surrounded and seized by the people of the Naib of Damascus armed with swords and clubs. They beat him until he was covered with blood, and they dragged him along until they set him in presence of the Pasha of Damascus who ordered the pillage of his house and of his slaves and his servants and all his property and they took everything, his family and his domestics and his goods. Attaf asked, What is my crime? and he answered, O scoundrel, thou art an ignorant fellow of the rabble, dost dispute with the ...

— Supplemental Nights, Volume 6 • Richard F. Burton

... whole world, required a careful selection of attendants, and I looked with despair at the prospect before me. The only men procurable for escort were the miserable cut-throats of Khartoum, accustomed to murder and pillage in the White Nile trade, and excited not by the love of adventure, but by the desire for plunder. To start with such men appeared ...

— In the Heart of Africa • Samuel White Baker

... feelings, they put their prisoners in chains. But then, fearing lest the prisoners die of loss of blood and so cheat them of the money for which they meant to sell them, they bound up their wounds and went on their way of destruction and pillage. After four or five days of piracy on the high seas, they started, laden with plunder, for the coast of Barbary, noted throughout the world at that time as a stronghold of ...

— Life of St. Vincent de Paul • F.A. [Frances Alice] Forbes

... with a general design to pillage and plunder on the Isthmus of Darien and the continent of South America. At the original rendezvous there were seven ships containing four hundred and seventy-seven men under the command of experienced pirate captains. The natural leaders ...

— Journeys Through Bookland, Vol. 8 • Charles H. Sylvester

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