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单词 pillage
释义 pil·lage
I. \ˈpilij, -lēj\ noun
(-s)
Etymology: Middle English, from Middle French, from piller to plunder (from peille rag, from Latin pilleum felt cap) + -age — more at pill (hair)
1.
 a. : the act of stripping of money and goods especially during war : sack
  < the painting may have been ruined in a pillage or massacre — Willa Cather >
  < plan for the pillage and enslavement of the earth — Calvin Coolidge >
 b. : the unlawful taking of property : robbery
2. archaic : something taken as booty : spoil
 < robbed all the country there about and brought the pillage home — Edmund Spenser >
II. \“, esp in pres part -ləj\ verb
(-ed/-ing/-s)
transitive verb
1. : to strip of money or goods by open violence : loot, sack
 < pirates pillaged the coasts — C.L.Jones >
2. : to acquire by stealing : take possession of unlawfully : purloin
 < gradually deserted, pillaged for building material, so that little marble remains — Claudia Cassidy >
 < the thought process which leads to the pillaging of an idea — L.P.Beth >
 < tobacco pillaged from a tin-full which his father had bought — Arthur Morrison >
intransitive verb
: to take booty : plunder
 < swept down … burning and pillaging — Mary Smith >
Synonyms: see ravage
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