1. pillage - Noun
2. pillage - Verb
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 dictionaryWe 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