plundering, pillage, pillaging
(noun) the act of stealing valuable things from a place; “the plundering of the Parthenon”; “his plundering of the great authors”
loot, booty, pillage, plunder, prize, swag, dirty money
(noun) goods or money obtained illegally
plunder, despoil, loot, reave, strip, rifle, ransack, pillage, foray
(verb) steal goods; take as spoils; “During the earthquake people looted the stores that were deserted by their owners”
Source: WordNet® 3.1
pillage (third-person singular simple present pillages, present participle pillaging, simple past and past participle pillaged)
(ambitransitive) To loot or plunder by force, especially in time of war.
pillage (countable and uncountable, plural pillages)
The spoils of war.
The act of pillaging.
• (spoils of war): See Thesaurus:booty
Source: Wiktionary
Pil"lage, n. Etym: [F., fr. piller to plunder. See Pill to plunder.]
1. The act of pillaging; robbery. Shak.
2. 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.
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.
Pil"lage, v. i. [imp. & p. p. Pillaged; p. pr. & vb. n. Pillaging.]
Definition: 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.
Pil"lage, v. i.
Definition: To take spoil; to plunder; to ravage. They were suffered to pillage wherever they went. Macaulay.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
27 April 2024
(adjective) remarkable or out of the ordinary in degree or magnitude or effect; “a great crisis”; “had a great stake in the outcome”
The Boston Tea Party helped popularize coffee in America. The hefty tea tax imposed on the colonies in 1773 resulted in America switching from tea to coffee. In the lead up to the Revolutionary War, it became patriotic to sip java instead of tea. The Civil War made the drink more pervasive. Coffee helped energize tired troops, and drinking it became an expression of freedom.
