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  2  definitions  found 
 
  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  1.6  [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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