pillage

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v., -laged, -lag·ing, -lag·es.

v.tr.
  1. To rob of goods by force, especially in time of war; plunder.
  2. To take as spoils.
v.intr.
To take spoils by force.

n.
  1. The act of pillaging.
  2. Something pillaged; spoils.

[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.]

pillager pil'lag·er n.

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verb

    To rob of goods by force, especially in time of war: depredate, despoil, havoc, loot, plunder, ransack, rape, ravage, sack2, spoliate, strip1. Archaic harrow, spoil. See crimes, give/take/reciprocity.

noun

    Goods or property seized unlawfully, especially by a victor in wartime: booty, loot, plunder, spoil (used in plural). Slang boodle. Nautical prize2. See crimes, give/take/reciprocity.


v

Definition: plunder, destroy
Antonyms: protect, safeguard

tv. to eat a meal, perhaps by raiding a refrigerator. (Perhaps voraciously.)  Let's go pillage Tom's fridge. I'm hungarian.

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pronunciation

IN BRIEF: To rob with wild force; to loot.

pronunciation Where is the justice of political power if it executes the murderer and jails the plunderer, and then itself marches upon neighboring lands, killing thousands and pillaging the very hills? — Kahlil Gibran (1883-1931)

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Dansk (Danish)
v. tr. - bytte, udplyndre
v. intr. - stjæle, plyndre
n. - udplyndring

Nederlands (Dutch)
plunderen, plundering, buit

Français (French)
v. tr. - piller, saccager, mettre à sac
v. intr. - se livrer au pillage ou au saccage
n. - pillage

Deutsch (German)
v. - plündern
n. - Plünderung

Ελληνική (Greek)
v. - λεηλατώ, διαγουμίζω, πλιατσικολογώ
n. - λεηλασία, διαγούμισμα, πλιάτσικο

Italiano (Italian)
saccheggiare, sacco

Português (Portuguese)
v. - pilhar, saquear
n. - pilhagem (f), saque (m)

Русский (Russian)
заниматься мародерством, грабить, мародерство, грабеж

Español (Spanish)
v. tr. - saquear, pillar
v. intr. - llevar o tomar como botín de un pillaje o saqueo
n. - pillaje, saqueo

Svenska (Swedish)
v. - plundra, skövla
n. - plundring, skövling

中文(简体)(Chinese (Simplified))
抢劫, 掠夺, 掠夺物

中文(繁體)(Chinese (Traditional))
v. tr. - 搶劫, 掠奪
v. intr. - 搶劫, 掠奪
n. - 掠奪, 掠奪物, 搶劫

한국어 (Korean)
v. tr. - 약탈하다
v. intr. - 약탈하다
n. - 약탈, 약탈한 물건, 전리품

日本語 (Japanese)
n. - 略奪, 略奪品
v. - 略奪する

العربيه (Arabic)
‏(فعل) يسلب, ينهب, يسرق, يستولي (الاسم) سلب, نهب, سرقه‏

עברית (Hebrew)
v. tr. - ‮בזז, שדד‬
v. intr. - ‮בזז, שדד‬
n. - ‮ביזה, שוד‬


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