2. (verb)plundering, pillage, pillaging the act of stealing valuable things from a place "the plundering of the Parthenon"; "his plundering of the great authors"
3. (verb)plunder, despoil, loot, reave, strip, rifle, ransack, pillage, foray steal goods; take as spoils "During the earthquake people looted the stores that were deserted by their owners"
Definition of 'pillage'
Webster Dictionary
1. (noun)pillage the act of pillaging; robbery
2. (noun)pillage that which is taken from another or others by open force, particularly and chiefly from enemies in war; plunder; spoil; booty
3. (verb)pillage to strip of money or goods by open violence; to plunder; to spoil; to lay waste; as, to pillage the camp of an enemy
4. (verb)pillage to take spoil; to plunder; to ravage