PILLAGE

pillage. (fr) pillage, spoile in warre, and sacking, of the enemies.

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pillage. Pillage, n. plunder; v.t. to plunder, rifle, rob

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Pil″lage (?), n. [[F., fr. piller to plunder. See Pill to plunder.]] 1. 1. The act of pillaging; robbery. Shak.
2. 2. That which is taken from another or others by open force, particularly and chiefly from enemies in war; plunder; spoil; booty.
Which pillage they with merry march bring home. Shak. Syn. — Plunder; rapine; spoil; depredation. — Pillage, Plunder. Pillage refers particularly to the act of stripping the sufferers of their goods, while plunder refers to the removal of the things thus taken; but the words are freely interchanged.