pillage

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  1. transitive verb To rob of goods by force, especially in time of war; plunder.
  2. transitive verb To take as spoils.
  3. intransitive verb To take spoils by force.
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  • Murder, rape, plunder, and pillage are the main contibutors to the Palestinian economy. —  Biga's Rants - A Townhall.com user blog
  • Aside from local business elites and their foreign partners, the only other group to benefit from the pillage has been foreign NGO's who are now in charge of "developing" the country, the government lacking the resources to do it itself.
  • Re: A Word Game!!! pillage - goods obtained illegally synonyms: ransack, booty, despoil etymology: it is derived from the french word pillage meaning plunder next word: nihilistRe: A Word Game!!!
  • Originally Posted by keerthi_koch pillage - goods obtained illegally synonyms: ransack, booty, despoil etymology: it is derived from the french word pillage meaning plunder next word: nihilist nihilist ----
  • As the pillage was at night, he had neither coat nor shoes; he had to cut and draw his firewood half a mile on a hand-sleigh to keep his sick mother from freezing; this he did barefooted. —  The Loyalists of America and Their Times, Vol. 2 of 2 From 1620-1816
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rapine ·  butchery ·  plunder ·  spoliation ·  arson ·  carnage ·  incendiarism ·  loot ·  devastation ·  massacre ·  burnings ·  confiscation

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pillage:   pillaged
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  1. From Middle English, booty, from Old French, from piller, to plunder, from peille, rag (probably from Latin pilleus, pīleus, felt cap) or from Vulgar Latin *pīliāre.

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  1. from Middle English pillage, pyllage, pilage, from Old French (and F.) pillage = Provencal pilatge = Spanish pillaje = Portuguese pilhagem, plunder, pillage, from Middle Latin as if *pilaticum, after Roman pillagium, plunder, from Latin pilare (later Old French piller, etc.), plunder: see pill.
 

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