'Pillaging' definitions:
Definition of 'pillaging'
(from WordNet)
noun
The act of stealing valuable things from a place; "the plundering of the Parthenon"; "his plundering of the great authors" [syn: plundering, pillage, pillaging]
Definition of 'Pillaging'
From: GCIDE
- 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. [1913 Webster]
- Mummius . . . took, pillaged, and burnt their city. --Arbuthnot. [1913 Webster]
Synonyms of 'pillaging'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- assault,
- attack,
- banditry,
- battering,
- brigandage,
- brigandism,
- butchery,
- depredation,
- despoiling,
- despoilment,
- despoliation,
- direption,
- disorderliness,
- foraging,
- foray,
- forcible seizure,
- freebooting,
- killing,
- laying waste,
- looting,
- marauding,
- massacre,
- obstreperousness,
- onslaught,
- pillage,
- plunder,
- plundering,
- plunderous,
- predacious,
- predacity,
- predatory,
- raid,
- raiding,
- ransacking,
- rapaciousness,
- rapacity,
- rape,
- rapine,
- ravage,
- ravagement,
- ravaging,
- ravenousness,
- ravishment,
- razzia,
- reiving,
- rifling,
- riot,
- rioting,
- sack,
- sacking,
- sharkishness,
- slaughter,
- sowing with salt,
- spoiling,
- spoliation,
- spoliatory,
- unruliness,
- violation,
- wolfishness