pillage[verb]Synonyms:- plunder, despoil, loot, maraud, raid, ransack, ravage, sack
[noun]Synonyms:- plunder, marauding, robbery, sack, spoliation
Related Idioms: lay waste
Related Words: encroach,
invade,
trespass,
appropriate,
arrogate,
confiscate,
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pil‧lage /ˈpɪlɪdʒ/
verb [intransitive and transitive][
Date: 1300-1400;
Language: French;
Origin: piller 'to rob']
if soldiers pillage a place in a war, they steal a lot of things and do a lot of damage
Synonym : plunder—pillage noun [uncountable]—pillager noun [countable] [TahlilGaran] Dictionary of Contemporary English ▲