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Synonyms for pillage
ˈpɪl ɪdʒpil·lage

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Princeton's WordNet4.0 / 4 votes

  1. loot, booty, pillage, plunder, prize, swag, dirty moneynoun

    goods or money obtained illegally

    Synonyms:
    shekels, cabbage, dirty money, pillaging, bread, lettuce, swag, prize, sugar, wampum, kale, lucre, clams, trophy, award, gelt, dinero, scratch, boodle, dough, moolah, lolly, plundering, pelf, loot, plunder, booty, simoleons

  2. plundering, pillage, pillagingverb

    the act of stealing valuable things from a place

    "the plundering of the Parthenon"; "his plundering of the great authors"

    Synonyms:
    prize, booty, plunder, plundering, swag, loot, dirty money, pillaging

  3. plunder, despoil, loot, reave, strip, rifle, ransack, pillage, forayverb

    steal goods; take as spoils

    "During the earthquake people looted the stores that were deserted by their owners"

    Synonyms:
    foray, comb, disrobe, spoil, clean, discase, leach, rape, divest, violate, sack, dismantle, strip, unclothe, undress, reave, rifle, denude, uncase, denudate, strip down, despoil, go, ransack, loot, deprive, peel, plunder, bare, disinvest

Dictionary of English Synonymes0.0 / 0 votes

  1. pillagenoun

    Synonyms:
    spoliation, depredation, destruction, devastation, plundering, rapine

  2. pillagenoun

    Synonyms:
    plunder, booty, spoil, prey

  3. pillageverb

    Synonyms:
    plunder, spoil, despoil, sack

Synonyms, Antonyms & Associated Words2.0 / 1 vote

  1. pillagenoun

    Synonyms:
    devastation, plundering, rapine, spoliation, spoil, plunder, booty, loot

  2. pillageverb

    Synonyms:
    sack, plunder, despoil, devastate, foray

PPDB, the paraphrase database0.0 / 0 votes

  1. List of paraphrases for "pillage":

    looting, plundering, pillaging, plunder, loot, robbery

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How to use pillage in a sentence?

  1. Suu Kyi:

    They are not free to rape, pillage and torture, they are free to go in and fight. That is in the constitution. Military matters are to be left to the army.

  2. Reed Brody:

    Habre's conviction for these horrific crimes after 25 years is a huge victory for his Chadian victims, the verdict sends a powerful message that the days when tyrants could brutalize their people, pillage their treasury and escape abroad to a life of luxury are coming to an end.

  3. Eli Bremer:

    When we push our production to third-world countries, they pollute their lands, we are going to third-world countries and demanding that they pillage their lands so that we can have green technologies.

  4. Geoffrey Duke:

    More weapons will mean more fuel to the fire, more attacks on civilians, arbitrary killings, rape, burnings and pillage.

  5. Reed Brody:

    The verdict sends a powerful message that the days when tyrants could brutalize their people, pillage their treasury and escape abroad to a life of luxury are coming to an end.


Translations for pillage

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  • غزاوةArabic
  • plenění, plenit, drancovat, drancováníCzech
  • Plünderung, plündernGerman
  • διαγούμισμα, πλιάτσικο, κουρσεύω, λεηλασία, κούρσεμα, λάφυρα, λεηλατώ, διαγουμίζωGreek
  • saquear, saqueo, pillajeSpanish
  • rüüstamine, rüüstamaEstonian
  • sotasaalis, ryöstää, ryöstäminenFinnish
  • pillage, pillerFrench
  • ביזה, שדד, שללHebrew
  • menjarahIndonesian
  • bottino, saccheggiare, saccheggioItalian
  • 略奪, 略奪品Japanese
  • praedoLatin
  • sirot, sirojumsLatvian
  • parakete, pāhuahua, pāhue, pāhuaMāori
  • pilhar, saque, pilhagem, saquear, butimPortuguese
  • prădaRomanian
  • добыча, разбой, грабёж, трофей, грабить, награбленное добро, разграблениеRussian
  • plundra, plundringSwedish
  • ปล้นสะดมThai
  • talan, çapulculuk, yağmaTurkish
  • piyaedje, branscataedjeWalloon

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