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Definition of pillage verb from the Oxford Advanced American Dictionary

 

pillage

 verb
verb
NAmE//ˈpɪlɪdʒ//
 
[intransitive, transitive]Verb Forms present simple I / you / we / they pillage
 
he / she / it pillages
 
past simple pillaged
 
-ing form pillaging
 
 
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to steal things from a place or region, especially in a war, using violence synonym plunder The rebels went looting and pillaging. pillage something The town had been pillaged and burned. pillage something from something Works of art were pillaged from churches and museums.
pillage noun [uncountable]
 
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They brought back horrific accounts of murder and pillage.
pillager
 
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noun compare loot, plunderSee pillage in the Oxford Advanced Learner's Dictionary
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