Pillage

Quick meaning: Pillage is a verb meaning (ambitransitive) To loot or plunder by force, especially in time of war.

Meaning

(ambitransitive) To loot or plunder by force, especially in time of war.

More Meanings

1. The spoils of war.
2. The act of pillaging.

Example Sentences

Which pillage they with merry march bring home.

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.

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.

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.

Word Forms

• pillages
• pillaging
• pillaged

Synonyms for pillage

Depending on context, synonyms include harry, booty, foray, plunder, swag, reave.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include plunder, plundering, despoil, reave, ransack, prize.

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