despoiled, pillaged, raped, ravaged, sacked
(adjective) having been robbed and destroyed by force and violence; “the raped countryside”
looted, pillaged, plundered, ransacked
(adjective) wrongfully emptied or stripped of anything of value; “the robbers left the looted train”; “people returned to the plundered village”
Source: WordNet® 3.1
pillaged
simple past tense and past participle of pillage
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
28 January 2025
(noun) a slight amount or degree of difference; “a tad too expensive”; “not a tad of difference”; “the new model is a shade better than the old one”
The first coffee-house in Mecca dates back to the 1510s. The beverage was in Turkey by the 1530s. It appeared in Europe circa 1515-1519 and was introduced to England by 1650. By 1675 the country had more than 3,000 coffee houses, and coffee had replaced beer as a breakfast drink.
