Pillage /(?)/

Pil·lage

Pillage

n.
  1. The act of pillaging; robbery.
  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.
Syn. -- 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.

Pillage

v. i.

imp. & p. p. Pillaged; p. pr. & vb. n. Pillaging

  1. 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.
  1. To take spoil; to plunder; to ravage.
    They were suffered to pillage wherever they went.