to steal things from a place or region, especially in a war, using violence:
[V] The rebels went looting and pillaging. * [VN] The town had been pillaged and burned. * Works of art were pillaged from churches and museums.
pillage noun [U] (formal):
They brought back horrific accounts of murder and pillage.
compareLOOT, PLUNDER
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Sourced from Main Dictionary in Lughet's collection.
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Is pillage a noun, verb, or something else?
In this entry, pillage is tagged as verb.
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