pillage

Noun · Verb

Synonyms: loot booty plunder prize swag dirty money plundering pillaging despoil reave strip rifle

WordNet 3.0

Noun (2)

goods or money obtained illegallySynonyms: loot booty plunder prize swag dirty money
the act of stealing valuable things from a place“the plundering of the Parthenon”“his plundering of the great authors”Synonyms: plundering pillaging

Verb (1)

steal goods; take as spoils“During the earthquake people looted the stores that were deserted by their owners”Synonyms: plunder despoil loot reave strip rifle ransack foray

Webster's Dictionary (GCIDE)

Pillage \Pil"lage\, n. [F., fr. piller to plunder. See Pill to plunder.]

1.The act of pillaging; robbery. --Shak. [1913 Webster]

2.That which is taken from another or others by open force, particularly and chiefly from enemies in war; plunder; spoil; booty. [1913 Webster]

Which pillage they with merry march bring home.— Shak.[1913 Webster]

Syn: Plunder; rapine; spoil; depredation.

Usage: 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. [1913 Webster]

Pillage \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. [1913 Webster]

Mummius . . . took, pillaged, and burnt their city. --Arbuthnot. [1913 Webster]

Pillage \Pil"lage\, v. i. To take spoil; to plunder; to ravage. [1913 Webster]

They were suffered to pillage wherever they went. --Macaulay. [1913 Webster]