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Pillage

  1. noun

    goods or money obtained illegally

    Similar: loot, booty, plunder, prize, swag, dirty money

  2. noun

    the act of stealing valuable things from a place

    the plundering of the Parthenon

    Similar: plundering, pillaging

  3. verb

    steal goods; take as spoils

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

    Similar: plunder, despoil, loot, reave, strip, rifle, ransack, foray

Word family

pillaged · pillaging

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