pillage

n. [ F., fr. piller to plunder. See Pill to plunder. ] 1. The act of pillaging; robbery. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. That which is taken from another or others by open force, particularly and chiefly from enemies in war; plunder; spoil; booty. [ 1913 Webster ]

Which pillage they with merry march bring home. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

Syn. -- Plunder; rapine; spoil; depredation. -- Pillage, Plunder. Pillage refers particularly to the act of stripping the sufferers of their goods, while plunder refers to the removal of the things thus taken; but the words are freely interchanged. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. i. [ imp. & p. p. Pillaged p. pr. & vb. n. Pillaging ] To strip of money or goods by open violence; to plunder; to spoil; to lay waste; as, to pillage the camp of an enemy. [ 1913 Webster ]

Mummius . . . took, pillaged, and burnt their city. Arbuthnot. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. i. To take spoil; to plunder; to ravage. [ 1913 Webster ]

They were suffered to pillage wherever they went. Macaulay. [ 1913 Webster ]