Pillage
Pronunciation : Pil"lage
Part of Speech : n.
Etymology : [F., fr. piller to plunder. See Pill to plunder.]
Definition : 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. -- 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 Unabridged Dictionary, 1913
Pronunciation : Pil"lage
Part of Speech : v.
Definition : Defn: 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.
i. [imp. & p. p. Pillaged; p. pr. & vb. n. Pillaging.]
Source : Webster's Unabridged Dictionary, 1913
Pronunciation : Pil"lage
Part of Speech : v.
Definition : Defn: To take spoil; to plunder; to ravage. They were suffered to pillage wherever they went. Macaulay.
i.
Source : Webster's Unabridged Dictionary, 1913