Pillage \Pil"lage\, v. i. To take spoil; to plunder; to ravage. [1913 Webster]

They were suffered to pillage wherever they went. --Macaulay. [1913 Webster]

Source: The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
 

Pillage \Pil"lage\, n. [F., fr. piller to plunder. See Pill to plunder.]

1. The act of pillaging; robbery. --Shak. [1913 Webster]

2. That which is taken from another or others by open force, particularly and chiefly from enemies in war; plunder; spoil; booty. [1913 Webster]

Which pillage they with merry march bring home. --Shak. [1913 Webster]

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. [1913 Webster]

Source: The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
 

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. [1913 Webster]

Mummius . . . took, pillaged, and burnt their city. --Arbuthnot. [1913 Webster]

Source: The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
 

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pillage

Source: WordNet (r) 2.0
 

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.

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
 

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.

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
 

Pillage \Pil"lage\, v. i. To take spoil; to plunder; to ravage.

They were suffered to pillage wherever they went. --Macaulay.

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)