Pillage

Webster's Dictionary of the English Language

·noun The act of pillaging; robbery.

II. Pillage ·vi To take spoil; to Plunder; to Ravage.

III. Pillage ·noun That which is taken from another or others by open force, particularly and chiefly from enemies in war; plunder; spoil; booty.

IV. Pillage ·vi To strip of money or goods by open violence; to Plunder; to Spoil; to lay waste; as, to pillage the camp of an Enemy.

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