Hypertext Webster Gateway: "pillaged"
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Pillage \Pil"lage\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. {Pillaged}; p. pr. & vb.
n. {Pillaging}.]
To strip of money or goods by open violence; to plunder; to
spoil; to lay waste; as, to pillage the camp of an enemy.
Mummius . . . took, pillaged, and burnt their city.
--Arbuthnot.
From WordNet (r) 1.7 (wn)
pillaged
adj 1: wrongfully emptied or stripped of anything of value; "the
robbers left the looted train"; "people returned to
the plundered village" [syn: {looted}, {plundered}, {ransacked}]
2: having been robbed and destroyed by force and violence; "the
raped countryside" [syn: {despoiled}, {raped}, {ravaged},
{sacked}]
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