Definitions for pillage
ˈpɪl ɪdʒpil·lage

Princeton's WordNetRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. loot, booty, pillage, plunder, prize, swag, dirty moneynoun

   goods or money obtained illegally

2. plundering, pillage, pillagingverb

   the act of stealing valuable things from a place

   "the plundering of the Parthenon"; "his plundering of the great authors"

3. plunder, despoil, loot, reave, strip, rifle, ransack, pillage, forayverb

   steal goods; take as spoils

   "During the earthquake people looted the stores that were deserted by their owners"

WiktionaryRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. pillagenoun

   The spoils of war.

2. pillagenoun

   The act of pillaging.

3. pillageverb

   To loot or plunder by force, especially in time of war.

4. Etymology: From pillage, from piller, from an unattested meaning of pilio, probably a figurative use of pilo, from pilus.

Samuel Johnson's DictionaryRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. PILLAGEnoun

   Etymology: pillage, Fr.

   1. Plunder; something got by plundering or pilling.

   Others, like soldiers,
   Make boot upon the summer’s velvet buds;
   Which pillage they with merry march bring home. William Shakespeare.

   2. The act of plundering.

   Thy sons make pillage of her chastity. William Shakespeare.

2. To Pillageverb

   To plunder; to spoil.

   Etymology: from the noun.

   The consul Mummius, after having beaten their army, took, pillaged and burnt their city. John Arbuthnot, on Coins.

WikipediaRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. pillage

   Looting is the act of stealing, or the taking of goods by force, typically in the midst of a military, political, or other social crisis, such as war, natural disasters (where law and civil enforcement are temporarily ineffective), or rioting. The proceeds of all these activities can be described as booty, loot, plunder, spoils, or pillage.During modern-day armed conflicts, looting is prohibited by international law, and constitutes a war crime.

Webster DictionaryRate this definition:5.0 / 1 vote

1. Pillagenoun

   the act of pillaging; robbery

2. Pillagenoun

   that which is taken from another or others by open force, particularly and chiefly from enemies in war; plunder; spoil; booty

3. Pillageverb

   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. Pillageverb

   to take spoil; to plunder; to ravage

Chambers 20th Century DictionaryRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. Pillage

   pil′āj, n. (Shak.) act of plundering: plunder: spoil, esp. taken in war.—v.t. to plunder or spoil.—v.t. Pill, to rob or plunder.—n. Pill′ager. [O. Fr.,—piller—L. pilāre, to plunder.]

Dictionary of Nautical TermsRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. pillage

   Wanton and mostly iniquitous plunder. But an allowed ancient practice, both in this and other countries, as shown by the sea ordinances of France, and our black book of the admiralty.

Military Dictionary and GazetteerRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. pillage

   The act of plundering. Also that which is taken from another by open force, particularly and chiefly from enemies in war; plunder; spoil.

2. pillage

   To strip of money or goods by open violence; to plunder; to spoil; as, troops pillage the camp or towns of an enemy.

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Numerology

1. Chaldean Numerology

   The numerical value of pillage in Chaldean Numerology is: 6

2. Pythagorean Numerology

   The numerical value of pillage in Pythagorean Numerology is: 8

Examples of pillage in a Sentence

1. Geoffrey Duke:

   More weapons will mean more fuel to the fire, more attacks on civilians, arbitrary killings, rape, burnings and pillage.

2. Reed Brody:

   The verdict sends a powerful message that the days when tyrants could brutalize their people, pillage their treasury and escape abroad to a life of luxury are coming to an end.

3. Eli Bremer:

   When we push our production to third-world countries, they pollute their lands, we are going to third-world countries and demanding that they pillage their lands so that we can have green technologies.

4. Marianne Moore:

   War is pillage versus resistance and if illusions of magnitude could be transmuted into ideals of magnanimity, peace might be realized.

5. Suu Kyi:

   They are not free to rape, pillage and torture, they are free to go in and fight. That is in the constitution. Military matters are to be left to the army.

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