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/ˈpɪl.ɪd͡ʒ/ · verb
(ambitransitive) To loot or plunder by force, especially in time of war..
1911, Sabine Baring-Gould, Castles and Cave Dwellings of Europe, Chapter VI: Cliff Castles—Continued, Archibald V. (1361-1397) was Count of Perigord. He was nominally under the lilies [France], but he pillaged indiscriminately in his county.
So far as Pridger was concerned the game was up. He had cooked the buying, he had cooked the selling, he had systematically pillaged the stock.
Which pillage they with merry march bring home.
An employee at a brewery in Kinshasa rated the aftermath as more catastrophic to the company than the direct violence: It was more the consequences of the pillages that hit Bracongo – the poverty of the people, our friends who buy beer.
Use pillage when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.
Pillage means (ambitransitive) To loot or plunder by force, especially in time of war..
Common synonyms include harry, booty, foray, plunder.
The opposite depends on the specific sense.
1911, Sabine Baring-Gould, Castles and Cave Dwellings of Europe, Chapter VI: Cliff Castles—Continued, Archibald V. (1361-1397) was Count of Perigord. He was nominally under the lilies [France], but he pillaged indiscriminately in his county.
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