pillages
Third-person singular simple present indicative form of pillage
pillages
plural of pillage
• spillage
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
4 April 2025
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