Category:Pillage

Pil"lage, n. Etym: [f., fr. piller to plunder. See pill to plunder.]

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.

Pillage Pil"lage, v. i. [imp. & p. p. Pillaged; p. pr. & vb. n. Pillaging.]

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.

Pillage Pil"lage, v. i.

Defn: to take spoil; to plunder; to ravage. They were suffered to pillage wherever they went. Macaulay.