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PILLAGE

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 I. (noun) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

The act of stealing valuable things from a place

Example:

his plundering of the great authors

Synonyms:

pillage; pillaging; plundering

Classified under:

Nouns denoting acts or actions

Hypernyms ("pillage" is a kind of...):

aggression; hostility (violent action that is hostile and usually unprovoked)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "pillage"):

banditry (the practice of plundering in gangs)

rape; rapine (the act of despoiling a country in warfare)

looting; robbery (plundering during riots or in wartime)

despoilation; despoilment; despoliation; spoil; spoilation; spoliation (the act of stripping and taking by force)

devastation; ravaging (plundering with excessive damage and destruction)

depredation; predation (an act of plundering and pillaging and marauding)

sack (the plundering of a place by an army or mob; usually involves destruction and slaughter)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Goods or money obtained illegally

Synonyms:

booty; dirty money; loot; pillage; plunder; prize; swag

Classified under:

Nouns denoting possession and transfer of possession

Hypernyms ("pillage" is a kind of...):

stolen property (property that has been stolen)

Meronyms (parts of "pillage"):

cut (a share of the profits)

Derivation:

pillage (steal goods; take as spoils)

 II. (verb) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

Steal goods; take as spoils

Example:

During the earthquake people looted the stores that were deserted by their owners

Synonyms:

despoil; foray; loot; pillage; plunder; ransack; reave; rifle; strip

Classified under:

Verbs of buying, selling, owning

Hypernyms (to "pillage" is one way to...):

take (take by force)

Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "pillage"):

deplume; displume (strip of honors, possessions, or attributes)

Sentence frame:

Somebody ----s something

Derivation:

pillage (goods or money obtained illegally)

pillager (someone who takes spoils or plunder (as in war))

pillaging (the act of stealing valuable things from a place)

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