Pillage

/ˈpɪl.ɪd͡ʒ/

Synonyms for "pillage" (177 found)

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Closest matches (36)

Noun(5 words)

abduct acquire appropriate arrogate assault attack banditry barbarize batter booty brigandage brigandism brutalize buccaneering burn butchercarry offcarry onclaim confiscate

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defilement demolish demolition depredate depredation desecrate desolate despoil despoiling despoilment

Verb(1 words)

despoil

Strong matches (53)

Noun(8 words)

despoilmentdirty moneydrain exploit expropriate looting loots pillaging

despoliation destroy destruction devastate devastation devour direption encroach filch fleece forage foraging foray freeboot freebooting getgo ongut hammer havoc

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invade kidnaplay wastelaying wastelevel lift loot looting maraud marauding maul mug nab overrun palm partake pilfer pillaging pinch piracy

Verb(5 words)

foray harries loot marauded marauds

Related words (88)

Noun(13 words)

pirating plundering plunders privateer prize raid raiding rifles sack sacks siphon spoils swag

plunder plundering pocket possessprey onpurloin rage raid raiding ramp rampage ransack ransacking rant rape rapine ravage ravagement ravaging rave

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Verb(9 words)

plunder plundered ransack ransacks reave rifle sacked steal strip

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5 relation types

More general

11 entries

aggression crime exploitation hostility predation property robberystolen propertytake theft wrongdoing

More specific

6 entries

booty leeching milking raiding sacking spoils

Collocations

8 entries

armed pillagemass pillagepillage and plunderpillage artifactspillage campaignpillage sitessystematic pillagewartime pillage

Inflections

3 entries

pillaged pillages pillaging

Derivations

4 entries

pillageable pillaged pillager pillaging

Sample sentences

4 total sentences available.

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France began to pillage Algeria in 1830.

Source: tatoeba (10101223)

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.

Source: wiktionary

Which pillage they with merry march bring home.

Source: wiktionary

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.

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