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Definition of pillage in English: pillageverb ˈpɪlɪdʒˈpɪlɪdʒ [with object]1Rob a (place) using violence, especially in wartime. （尤指战争中）抢劫 the abbey was plundered and pillaged Example sentencesExamples - The truth of the matter is that Europeans are not to be trusted in nature because they rape and pillage the earth, whereas your indigenous peoples regard the earth as their mother and treat her with the greatest respect.
- During the first two nights of pillaging the Capital City, over half a million people were killed.
- For two thousand years barbarian races swept across Central Asia raping, pillaging and ravaging as they went.
- Nero did not want anyone to know that he had been born in the village they were about to rape, pillage, and plunder their grimy guts out.
- She said: ‘They have raped and pillaged their own shores and now they have raped and pillaged ours.’
- Since then, the militia, supported by the government, have murdered and raped thousands of African villagers, and looted and pillaged villages across the region.
- No matter how much you rape and pillage us and invade our land we will always be here.
- European countries raped and pillaged the continent, destroying the social fabric and leaving a metaphorical smoking hole behind.
- Tottenham Court Road was pillaged by a mob of sixty hardcore anarchists.
- Meanwhile, they trash every commandment of God, launch a new war every year, loot the treasury, neglect education, health and the environment and pillage the earth under a blanket of annihilatory weapons.
- Most of the outlying towns and villages of the empire had already been pillaged and destroyed, mere husks of buildings remaining to mark where prosperous towns once were.
- There was also wide-ranging destruction in the countryside, particularly affecting the fortress towns, which were pillaged and despoiled.
- Our view of the Vikings is bloodthirsty men who raped, pillaged and plundered.
- The sight reminded me of a war torn city ravaged and pillaged by the plunder of war.
- The West has raped and pillaged much of the rest of the world in the name of progress and living in comfort, but that can't go on indefinitely.
- Today's conflict profiteers are not the first to sponsor a campaign to ransack, rape, pillage and plunder in the Congo.
- He ignored the resolution and continued to rape and pillage the country.
- What if those Fascist Romans had not raped, pillaged and plundered the Ancient Britons?
- What will they have left when the art of all of the cultures of the earth has been pillaged by armies, looted by wealthy collectors, destroyed by insane fundamentalists, and prohibited by tyrants?
- Has there been a rash of rape, pillage and plundering by marauding bands of illegals?
Synonyms plunder, rob, ravage, harry, maraud, ravish, rape, raid, ransack, loot, sack, rifle - 1.1 Steal (something) using violence, especially in wartime.
（尤指战争中）抢劫 artworks pillaged from churches and museums 从教堂和博物馆里掠夺的艺术品。 Example sentencesExamples - The three men that pillaged the home of John Smith of Tombrien, and subjected the elderly man to a terrifying ordeal made off with only a small amount of money.
- The lot of them are now pillaging the Professor's cellar and grumbling about the grumpy bastard who shares their lives.
- Corruption trials for pillaging the state will probably happen.
- She also ran a grocery store which hardly made any profit, since it was also the family food-stock and we, the children, pillaged it mercilessly.
- One news story carried reports of American journalists pillaging the art treasures of Iraq and smuggling them home.
- Many soldiers carried small Leica or Ermanox cameras in their rucksacks or pillaged optical equipment from the towns they occupied.
- Notice that they're not only pillaging resources these days, but they're investing.
- In 1661, a Dutch fleet pillaged its temples and maltreated monks, the only inhabitants.
- Mobutu was later accused of pillaging the mineral resources there, lining up his pockets and those of his closest colleagues.
- I deplore the way that the US goes into countries and pillages them, stealing their assets.
- Thieves in medieval Russia believed that if they carried a candle made of the fat of a murdered virgin when they pillaged churches, they wouldn't get caught.
- They also reportedly joined looters who pillaged other lucrative targets like office buildings, stores, and private homes.
- The buildings were often pillaged in times of uncertainty - in some cases, totally demolished - and then rebuilt and restored over and over again.
- You want people to buy your stuff instead of just pillaging it off the Net?
- Our people have had to submit to its wishes every year to keep it from setting fire to our lands, stealing my people, pillaging their houses as well as a list of other horrible things.
- This is ‘property as theft’ in its purest form - the biopirates are stealing from the commons, not to mention pillaging people's cultural heritage.
- For years they had been pillaging the various shops that had occupied the Tea Rooms and hoped for a few more pickings.
- We're supposed to believe that pillaging the planet is part of an inevitable progression.
- After a quick stop at the remnants of the cathedral in Fortrose, which suffered at the hands of Cromwell, who pillaged the red sandstone to build his fort in Inverness, we find ourselves in another realm of myths.
- The problem is that if the pirates carry on pillaging the fish, they will put themselves, and the rest of the world's legitimate tuna boats, out of business.
Synonyms ransack, steal from, plunder, rob, raid, loot, rifle, sack dispossess, strip, deprive, denude, devastate, lay waste, ravage, harry, maraud literary despoil archaic spoil, reave, rape rare depredate, spoliate, forage steal, pilfer, thieve, rob, take, snatch, purloin, loot, rifle, abscond with, carry off informal walk off/away with, run away/off with, swipe, nab, rip off, lift, ‘liberate’, ‘borrow’, filch, snaffle, snitch British informal pinch, half-inch, nick, whip, knock off, nobble, bone North American informal heist, glom Australian informal snavel West Indian informal tief archaic crib, hook, reave
noun ˈpɪlɪdʒˈpɪlɪdʒ mass nounThe action of pillaging a place or property, especially in war. （尤指战争中的）抢劫；掠夺 rebellious peasants intent on pillage Example sentencesExamples - The hundreds of millions of dollars being reaped from this pillage, officials say, are going to some of Indonesia's top serving or retired military officers.
- During the 1846 U.S. invasion of Mexico, newspapers reported pillage, rape, and murder of civilians by Gen. Zachary Taylor's soldiers.
- His tenure at the Ministry of the Navy was a complete failure and he presided over the cultural pillage of Italy and Egypt.
- Leaving ‘the whole subject’ to local commanders nevertheless permitted considerable latitude for pillage or destruction and was in itself an important principle.
- During their forty-day pillage of Baghdad, the Mongols destroyed arguably the most advanced collection of human knowledge of all times.
- He rebuilt ruined churches, built others, he sent overseas to replace lost books and artifacts and all that he possibly could to heal the wounds of the past two centuries of Norse pillage.
- The death penalty was prescribed for anyone caught in the act of pillage during a raid.
- Well prior to the outbreak of the current war, they warned the Pentagon of the dangers to Iraq's cultural heritage posed by postwar pillage and destruction.
- The surprise offensive triggered a predictable spree of pillage and rape in the lakeside city, and sparked a crisis in the fragile peace process across the country.
- If all episodes of pillage were as easy to explain, the UN might not today be facing what is shaping up as the biggest scandal in its chequered history.
- And He came into the stock exchange, where He found them intent on the rape and pillage of the peoples of the world, and he caused all trading to stop.
- She believed in the messages of her soul's voices; they told her of the great horrors of her world, and about the ways of the hero who could forestall the terrors of war, pillage and rapine.
- It was a system built on blood and arms, on clever balancing of different interest groups, on international anti-communist support of the Cold War and on the organized pillage of the state.
- The death toll through famine in Ukraine and Kazakhstan was certainly lower than in the famines that resulted from the British pillage of Ireland and India.
- However, despite my outing of this pillage in June, I have yet to hear from any of the grave robber's fellow club-members that he has repented and replaced the stolen item.
- The commission held him accountable for the rampage of pillage, murder, and destruction conducted by his forces in the Philippines before his capture.
- With her own eyes Flavia had watched the savages work, their blond hair caked with dust and beer, their pink faces contorted with the joy of pillage.
- In a series of attacks starting in 1748 until 1761, Abdali would not only pillage and loot Delhi, he also cleaned out Mathura, Kashmir and cities in Panjab.
- That course was not open because several ministers in Modi's cabinet were participating in the violence and/or monitoring the organised crowds to guarantee effective pillage and slaughter.
- This area was patrolled by German mercenaries who went on a rampage of pillage and terrorising the local population.
Synonyms robbery, robbing, raiding, pillaging, plunder, plundering, looting, sacking, sack, ransacking, ravaging, laying waste, devastation, depredation, rape, harrying, marauding literary despoiling, rapine archaic spoliation, reaving
Derivativesnoun ˈpɪlɪdʒəˈpɪlədʒər In other lands however there are pillagers and marauders that keep me strong, but soon will come a time when slaughter shall cover these lands and I shall rise above the rest. Example sentencesExamples - To confuse pillagers, exquisite bas-reliefs were laid face down to camouflage them among more ordinary blocks.
- Their attempt at grandeur is deeply ironic, however, since they fail to see what the comparison really implies: that the Americans, too, are conquerors and pillagers.
- In the ninth century, when Paris was invaded by the Norsemen, those great pillagers of tombs, her relics were taken for safety some fifteen miles away.
- We need not look for ‘proof’ by poring over the dusty records of the meticulous pillagers, marauders, and savvy tradesmen.
OriginLate Middle English (as a noun): from Old French, from piller 'to plunder'. caterpillar from Late Middle English: The caterpillar first appeared in English in the form catyrpel, probably an alteration of the Old French word chatepelose, literally ‘hairy cat’. English used to have a word piller, meaning ‘a plunderer or ravager’ (related to pillage) and, given the damage that caterpillars do to plants, it is likely that this influenced how the word is spelt.
Rhymesgrillage, spillage, stillage, tillage, village Definition of pillage in US English: pillageverbˈpɪlɪdʒˈpilij [with object]1Rob a (place) using violence, especially in wartime. （尤指战争中）抢劫 Example sentencesExamples - No matter how much you rape and pillage us and invade our land we will always be here.
- Has there been a rash of rape, pillage and plundering by marauding bands of illegals?
- European countries raped and pillaged the continent, destroying the social fabric and leaving a metaphorical smoking hole behind.
- He ignored the resolution and continued to rape and pillage the country.
- What will they have left when the art of all of the cultures of the earth has been pillaged by armies, looted by wealthy collectors, destroyed by insane fundamentalists, and prohibited by tyrants?
- During the first two nights of pillaging the Capital City, over half a million people were killed.
- What if those Fascist Romans had not raped, pillaged and plundered the Ancient Britons?
- The West has raped and pillaged much of the rest of the world in the name of progress and living in comfort, but that can't go on indefinitely.
- She said: ‘They have raped and pillaged their own shores and now they have raped and pillaged ours.’
- Meanwhile, they trash every commandment of God, launch a new war every year, loot the treasury, neglect education, health and the environment and pillage the earth under a blanket of annihilatory weapons.
- Since then, the militia, supported by the government, have murdered and raped thousands of African villagers, and looted and pillaged villages across the region.
- The truth of the matter is that Europeans are not to be trusted in nature because they rape and pillage the earth, whereas your indigenous peoples regard the earth as their mother and treat her with the greatest respect.
- The sight reminded me of a war torn city ravaged and pillaged by the plunder of war.
- Today's conflict profiteers are not the first to sponsor a campaign to ransack, rape, pillage and plunder in the Congo.
- There was also wide-ranging destruction in the countryside, particularly affecting the fortress towns, which were pillaged and despoiled.
- Tottenham Court Road was pillaged by a mob of sixty hardcore anarchists.
- For two thousand years barbarian races swept across Central Asia raping, pillaging and ravaging as they went.
- Most of the outlying towns and villages of the empire had already been pillaged and destroyed, mere husks of buildings remaining to mark where prosperous towns once were.
- Nero did not want anyone to know that he had been born in the village they were about to rape, pillage, and plunder their grimy guts out.
- Our view of the Vikings is bloodthirsty men who raped, pillaged and plundered.
Synonyms plunder, rob, ravage, harry, maraud, ravish, rape, raid, ransack, loot, sack, rifle - 1.1 Steal (something) using violence, especially in wartime.
（尤指战争中）抢劫 artworks pillaged from churches and museums 从教堂和博物馆里掠夺的艺术品。 Example sentencesExamples - They also reportedly joined looters who pillaged other lucrative targets like office buildings, stores, and private homes.
- We're supposed to believe that pillaging the planet is part of an inevitable progression.
- The lot of them are now pillaging the Professor's cellar and grumbling about the grumpy bastard who shares their lives.
- For years they had been pillaging the various shops that had occupied the Tea Rooms and hoped for a few more pickings.
- The three men that pillaged the home of John Smith of Tombrien, and subjected the elderly man to a terrifying ordeal made off with only a small amount of money.
- You want people to buy your stuff instead of just pillaging it off the Net?
- Mobutu was later accused of pillaging the mineral resources there, lining up his pockets and those of his closest colleagues.
- After a quick stop at the remnants of the cathedral in Fortrose, which suffered at the hands of Cromwell, who pillaged the red sandstone to build his fort in Inverness, we find ourselves in another realm of myths.
- Corruption trials for pillaging the state will probably happen.
- The buildings were often pillaged in times of uncertainty - in some cases, totally demolished - and then rebuilt and restored over and over again.
- She also ran a grocery store which hardly made any profit, since it was also the family food-stock and we, the children, pillaged it mercilessly.
- Notice that they're not only pillaging resources these days, but they're investing.
- One news story carried reports of American journalists pillaging the art treasures of Iraq and smuggling them home.
- I deplore the way that the US goes into countries and pillages them, stealing their assets.
- Thieves in medieval Russia believed that if they carried a candle made of the fat of a murdered virgin when they pillaged churches, they wouldn't get caught.
- The problem is that if the pirates carry on pillaging the fish, they will put themselves, and the rest of the world's legitimate tuna boats, out of business.
- Many soldiers carried small Leica or Ermanox cameras in their rucksacks or pillaged optical equipment from the towns they occupied.
- In 1661, a Dutch fleet pillaged its temples and maltreated monks, the only inhabitants.
- This is ‘property as theft’ in its purest form - the biopirates are stealing from the commons, not to mention pillaging people's cultural heritage.
- Our people have had to submit to its wishes every year to keep it from setting fire to our lands, stealing my people, pillaging their houses as well as a list of other horrible things.
Synonyms ransack, steal from, plunder, rob, raid, loot, rifle, sack steal, pilfer, thieve, rob, take, snatch, purloin, loot, rifle, abscond with, carry off
nounˈpɪlɪdʒˈpilij The action of pillaging a place or property, especially in wartime. （尤指战争中的）抢劫；掠夺 Example sentencesExamples - The death toll through famine in Ukraine and Kazakhstan was certainly lower than in the famines that resulted from the British pillage of Ireland and India.
- In a series of attacks starting in 1748 until 1761, Abdali would not only pillage and loot Delhi, he also cleaned out Mathura, Kashmir and cities in Panjab.
- The hundreds of millions of dollars being reaped from this pillage, officials say, are going to some of Indonesia's top serving or retired military officers.
- She believed in the messages of her soul's voices; they told her of the great horrors of her world, and about the ways of the hero who could forestall the terrors of war, pillage and rapine.
- And He came into the stock exchange, where He found them intent on the rape and pillage of the peoples of the world, and he caused all trading to stop.
- However, despite my outing of this pillage in June, I have yet to hear from any of the grave robber's fellow club-members that he has repented and replaced the stolen item.
- The death penalty was prescribed for anyone caught in the act of pillage during a raid.
- During their forty-day pillage of Baghdad, the Mongols destroyed arguably the most advanced collection of human knowledge of all times.
- The commission held him accountable for the rampage of pillage, murder, and destruction conducted by his forces in the Philippines before his capture.
- This area was patrolled by German mercenaries who went on a rampage of pillage and terrorising the local population.
- If all episodes of pillage were as easy to explain, the UN might not today be facing what is shaping up as the biggest scandal in its chequered history.
- Well prior to the outbreak of the current war, they warned the Pentagon of the dangers to Iraq's cultural heritage posed by postwar pillage and destruction.
- Leaving ‘the whole subject’ to local commanders nevertheless permitted considerable latitude for pillage or destruction and was in itself an important principle.
- With her own eyes Flavia had watched the savages work, their blond hair caked with dust and beer, their pink faces contorted with the joy of pillage.
- The surprise offensive triggered a predictable spree of pillage and rape in the lakeside city, and sparked a crisis in the fragile peace process across the country.
- It was a system built on blood and arms, on clever balancing of different interest groups, on international anti-communist support of the Cold War and on the organized pillage of the state.
- During the 1846 U.S. invasion of Mexico, newspapers reported pillage, rape, and murder of civilians by Gen. Zachary Taylor's soldiers.
- His tenure at the Ministry of the Navy was a complete failure and he presided over the cultural pillage of Italy and Egypt.
- He rebuilt ruined churches, built others, he sent overseas to replace lost books and artifacts and all that he possibly could to heal the wounds of the past two centuries of Norse pillage.
- That course was not open because several ministers in Modi's cabinet were participating in the violence and/or monitoring the organised crowds to guarantee effective pillage and slaughter.
Synonyms robbery, robbing, raiding, pillaging, plunder, plundering, looting, sacking, sack, ransacking, ravaging, laying waste, devastation, depredation, rape, harrying, marauding
OriginLate Middle English (as a noun): from Old French, from piller ‘to plunder’. |