PILLAGE
Dictionary entry overview: What does pillage mean?
• PILLAGE (noun)
The noun PILLAGE has 2 senses:
1. goods or money obtained illegally
2. the act of stealing valuable things from a place
Familiarity information: PILLAGE used as a noun is rare.
• PILLAGE (verb)
The verb PILLAGE has 1 sense:
1. steal goods; take as spoils
Familiarity information: PILLAGE used as a verb is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
• PILLAGE (noun)
Meaning:
Goods or money obtained illegally
Classified under:
Nouns denoting possession and transfer of possession
Synonyms:
booty; dirty money; loot; pillage; plunder; swag; prize
Hypernyms ("pillage" is a kind of...):
stolen property (property that has been stolen)
Meronyms (parts of "pillage"):
cut (a share of the profits)
Meaning:
The act of stealing valuable things from a place
Classified under:
Nouns denoting acts or actions
Synonyms:
pillaging; plundering; pillage
Context examples:
the plundering of the Parthenon / his plundering of the great authors
Hypernyms ("pillage" is a kind of...):
aggression; hostility (violent action that is hostile and usually unprovoked)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "pillage"):
banditry (the practice of plundering in gangs)
rape; rapine (the act of despoiling a country in warfare)
looting; robbery (plundering during riots or in wartime)
despoilation; despoilment; despoliation; spoil; spoilation; spoliation (the act of stripping and taking by force)
devastation; ravaging (plundering with excessive damage and destruction)
depredation; predation (an act of plundering and pillaging and marauding)
sack (the plundering of a place by an army or mob; usually involves destruction and slaughter)
• PILLAGE (verb)
Meaning:
Steal goods; take as spoils
Classified under:
Verbs of buying, selling, owning
Synonyms:
despoil; foray; pillage; rifle; ransack; reave; loot; plunder; strip
Context example:
During the earthquake people looted the stores that were deserted by their owners
Hypernyms (to "pillage" is one way to...):
take (take by force)
Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "pillage"):
deplume; displume (strip of honors, possessions, or attributes)
Sentence frame:
Somebody ----s something
