pillaged

Adjective

WordNet 3.0

Adjective (2)

  1. wrongfully emptied or stripped of anything of value“the robbers left the looted train”“people returned to the plundered village”Synonyms: lootedplunderedransacked
  2. having been robbed and destroyed by force and violence“the raped countryside”Synonyms: despoiledrapedravagedsacked
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Webster's Dictionary (GCIDE)

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]

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