PILLAGE
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Pil"lage (?), n. [F., fr. piller to plunder. See Pill to plunder.] 1. The act of pillaging; robbery. Shak.
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2. That which is taken from another or others by open force, particularly and chiefly from enemies in war; plunder; spoil; booty.
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Which pillage they with merry march bring home.
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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.
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Pil"lage, v. i. [imp. & p. p. Pillaged (?); p. pr. & vb. n. Pillaging (?).] To strip of money or goods by open violence; to plunder; to spoil; to lay waste; as, to pillage the camp of an enemy.
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Mummius . . . took, pillaged, and burnt their city.
Arbuthnot.
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Pil"lage, v. i. To take spoil; to plunder; to ravage.
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They were suffered to pillage wherever they went.
Macaulay.
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