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(), n.[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 ().] 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.To take spoil; to plunder; to ravage. They were suffered to pillage wherever they went. Macaulay. スポンサード リンク
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