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pillaged
pil·lage P0303600 (pĭl′ĭj)v. pil·laged, pil·lag·ing, pil·lag·es v.tr.1. To rob of goods by force, especially in time of war; plunder.2. To take as spoils.v.intr. To take spoils by force.n.1. The act of pillaging.2. Something pillaged; spoils.
[From Middle English, booty, from Old French, from piller, to take (by ruse), plunder, manhandle, from Vulgar Latin *pīliāre, perhaps originally meaning "to deprive (someone) of his felt cap" and derived from Latin pilleus, pīleus, felt cap (given to an ancient Roman freedman as a symbol of his emancipation); perhaps akin to Greek pīlos, felt.]
pil′lag·er n.Thesaurus| Adj. | 1. | pillaged - wrongfully emptied or stripped of anything of value; "the robbers left the looted train"; "people returned to the plundered village"looted, plundered, ransackedempty - holding or containing nothing; "an empty glass"; "an empty room"; "full of empty seats"; "empty hours" | | 2. | pillaged - having been robbed and destroyed by force and violence; "the raped countryside"despoiled, raped, ravaged, sackeddestroyed - spoiled or ruined or demolished; "war left many cities destroyed"; "Alzheimer's is responsible for her destroyed mind" |
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Related to pillaged: despoiled, plundered, lootedSynonyms for pillagedadj wrongfully emptied or stripped of anything of valueSynonymsRelated Wordsadj having been robbed and destroyed by force and violenceSynonyms- despoiled
- raped
- ravaged
- sacked
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