Pillaging

Synonyms for "pillaging" (73 found)

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Closest matches (15)

Noun(3 words)

assault attack banditry battering brigandage brigandism butchery depredation despoiling despoilment despoliation direption

Strong matches (22)

disorderliness foraging forayforcible seizurefreebooting havoc killinglaying wastelooting marauding massacre obstreperousness onslaught pillage plunder plundering plunderous

Noun(5 words)

exploitative extractive looting plunder plunderage

Related words (36)

Noun(4 words)

plunders predatory raiding ravaging

predacious predacity predatory raid raiding ransacking rapaciousness rapacity rape rapine ravage ravagement ravaging ravenousness ravishment razzia reiving rifling riot rioting

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robbery sack sacking sharkishness slaughtersowing with saltspoiling spoliation spoliatory unruliness violation wolfishness

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More general

10 entries

aggression crime depletion depredation exploitation hostility lootingpredatory practicetheft violence

More specific

14 entries

armed raidartifact lootingcity raiddepredationland grablootingmass lootingmuseum lootingraidingresource extractionsackingsiege plunderstate appropriationtemple looting

Collocations

17 entries

depredation lootingmass pillagingnaval pillagingpillaging activitiespillaging bandspillaging campaignpillaging raidpillaging tacticsplunderpostwar pillagingraidssystematic pillagingurban pillagingviolence warfare

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Inflections

4 entries

more pillagingmost pillagingpillaged pillages

Derivations

3 entries

pillage pillager pillagingly

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