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pillaging::noun | Spocien Dictionary
| Type | Words |
|---|---|
| Synonyms | pillage, plundering |
| Type of | hostility, aggression |
| Has types | depredation, despoilation, despoilment, despoliation, devastation, looting, predation, rape, rapine, ravaging, robbery, sack, spoil, spoilation, spoliation, banditry |
| Derivation | pillage |
Examples of pillaging
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Prisoners have been released from jail to roam the city, shooting and pillaging.
From the time.com
He kept ships in the port, and had been busy pillaging rebel barons in the area.
From the edp24.co.uk
Residents say they have suffered murders, rapes and pillaging amid the fighting.
From the newsday.com
More recent incursions from pillaging property developers have been fended off.
From the denverpost.com
English ships soon began to harass the French, pillaging their camps and ships.
From the en.wikipedia.org
They hear about bankers'bonuses and how corporations are pillaging the planet.
From the guardian.co.uk
There's nothing wrong with pillaging other people's ideas, so long as you can.
From the economist.com
Soldiers began openly pillaging the Galveston quartermasters stores on May 21.
From the en.wikipedia.org
There are no known fortifications, nor is there proof of ransacking and pillaging.
From the guardian.co.uk
- Loot: goods or money obtained illegally
- Plunder: steal goods; take as spoils; "During the earthquake people looted the stores that were deserted by their owners"
- Plundering: the act of stealing valuable things from a place; "the plundering of the Parthenon"; "his plundering of the great authors"
- (pillaged) looted: wrongfully emptied or stripped of anything of value; "the robbers left the looted train"; "people returned to the plundered village"
- (pillaged) despoiled: having been robbed and destroyed by force and violence; "the raped countryside"
- Looting, also referred to as sacking, ransacking, plundering, despoiling, despoliation, and pillaging, is the indiscriminate taking of goods by force as part of a military or political victory, or during a catastrophe, such as war, natural disaster, or rioting...
- The Pillage is the debut album of close affiliate and quasi-member of the Wu-Tang Clan, Cappadonna. It was released on March 24, 1998 by Razor Sharp/Epic Street on Compact disc, vinyl and tape cassette.
- The spoils of war; The act of pillaging; To loot or plunder by force, especially in time of war
- (Pillaging) An obsessive behavior whereby a person takes things, often of little or no value, that belong to someone else, often thinking it is hers.
