Word

pillage, n.
(pillages)

the act of stealing valuable things from a place
<noun.act>

pillage pillaging plundering

sample sentences

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

lexical pointers

derivationally related form

plunder plunder plunder

lexical pointers

derivationally related form

semantic pointers

hypernym

aggression, hostility

hyponym

banditry rape, rapine looting, robbery spoil, spoliation, spoilation, despoilation, despoilment, despoliation ravaging, devastation depredation, predation sack

goods or money obtained illegally
<noun.possession> freq. cnt.: 5 freq. cnt.: 2 freq. cnt.: 1 freq. cnt.: 1 freq. cnt.: 1

booty dirty money loot pillage plunder prize swag

lexical pointers

derivationally related form

lexical pointers

derivationally related form

plunder plunder plunder

lexical pointers

derivationally related form

semantic pointers

hypernym

stolen property

part meronym