Hypertext Webster Gateway: "pillaging"
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)
pillaging
n : the act of stealing valuable things from a place; "the
plundering of Rome"; "his plundering of the great
authors" [syn: {plundering}, {pillage}]
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