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Noun: pillage  pi-lij
  1. Goods or money obtained illegally
    - loot, booty, plunder, prize, swag [informal], dirty money
     
  2. The act of stealing valuable things from a place
    "the pillage of the Parthenon";
    - plundering, pillaging
Verb: pillage  pi-lij
  1. Steal goods; take as spoils
    "During the earthquake people pillaged the stores that were deserted by their owners";
    - plunder, despoil, loot, reave [archaic], strip, rifle, ransack, foray

Derived forms: pillaged, pillages, pillaging

Type of: aggression, hostility, stolen property, take

Encyclopedia: Pillage