pillaged
AdjectiveUS[pil-ijd]/ˈpɪlɪdʒd/2 syllables
Open English WordNet
Adjective (2)
- wrongfully emptied or stripped of anything of value“the robbers left the looted train”“people returned to the plundered village”Synonyms: lootedplunderedransackedOpposite fullSimilar empty
- having been robbed and destroyed by force and violence“the raped countryside”Synonyms: despoiledrapedravagedsackedOpposite preservedSimilar destroyed
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Webster's Dictionary (1913)
“pillaged” is listed under Pillage.
Pil′lage intransitive verb [past tense & past participle Pillaged; present participle & verbal noun 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.— John Arbuthnot
Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913), from GCIDE 0.54