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1. The act of stealing valuable things from a place
   "the pillaging of the Parthenon";
   - plundering, pillage

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: pillagings

Type of: aggression, hostility, take

Encyclopedia: Pillaging