pillage

Speech parts

1. pillage - Noun

2. pillage - Verb

Meaning

The act of pillaging; robbery.

That which is taken from another or others by open force, particularly and chiefly from enemies in war; plunder; spoil; booty.

To strip of money or goods by open violence; to plunder; to spoil; to lay waste; as, to pillage the camp of an enemy.

To take spoil; to plunder; to ravage.

Source: Webster's dictionary

Synonyms

plunder strip prize rifle booty foray loot spoil plundering swag pillaging ransack despoil depredation rapine
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Antonyms

aid build protect advance save expand
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Hypernyms

take aggression hostility

Hyponyms

rape predation robbery sack devastation spoil

Phrases with the word

to pillage

Derivatives

pillaged pillaging

Examples

We kind o' thought Christ went agin war an' pillage. James Russell Lowell

War is pillage versus resistance and if illusions of magnitude could be transmuted into ideals of magnanimity, peace might be realized. Marianne Moore

The sweets of Pillage can be known To no one but the Thief, Compassion for Integrity Is his divinest Grief. Emily Dickinson

Let the corporations do as they please -- pillage the environment, falsify their advertising, rig the securities markets -- and it is none of the federal government's business to interfere with the will of heaven. Lewis H. Lapham

Policy and morals concur in repressing pillage. Napoleon Bonaparte

I blush to think of our origins-our hands are steeped in blood and crime. And there is no letup to the slaughter and pillage. Henry Miller

Close letter words and terms

Pillado pillaf pillaff pillageable pillaged pillager