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Pillage

//ˈpɪl.ɪd͡ʒ// noun, verb

Definitions

Noun
  1. 1
    The spoils of war. countable, uncountable

    "Which pillage they with merry march bring home."

  2. 2
    the act of stealing valuable things from a place wordnet
  3. 3
    The act of pillaging. countable, uncountable

    "An employee at a brewery in Kinshasa rated the aftermath as more catastrophic to the company than the direct violence: It was more the consequences of the pillages that hit Bracongo – the poverty of the people, our friends who buy beer."

  4. 4
    goods or money obtained illegally wordnet
Verb
  1. 1
    To loot or plunder by force, especially in time of war. ambitransitive

    "1911, Sabine Baring-Gould, Castles and Cave Dwellings of Europe, Chapter VI: Cliff Castles—Continued, Archibald V. (1361-1397) was Count of Perigord. He was nominally under the lilies [France], but he pillaged indiscriminately in his county."

  2. 2
    steal goods; take as spoils wordnet

Etymology

Etymology 1

From Old French pillage, from piller (“plunder”), from an unattested meaning of Late Latin piliō, probably a figurative use of Latin pilō (“I remove (hair)”), from pilus (“hair”).

Etymology 2

From Old French pillage, from piller (“plunder”), from an unattested meaning of Late Latin piliō, probably a figurative use of Latin pilō (“I remove (hair)”), from pilus (“hair”).

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