PILLAGE

n. v.

4 definitions — Webster’s Dictionary (1828)

1.
n.

The act of pillaging; robbery. Shak.

2.
n.

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.

3.
v.

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.

4.
v.

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

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