PILLAGED

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


Verb

pillaged

simple past tense and past participle of pillage

Source: Wiktionary


PILLAGE

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



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