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1. WordNet® 3.0 (2006)
pillaging
    n 1: the act of stealing valuable things from a place; "the
         plundering of the Parthenon"; "his plundering of the great
         authors" [syn: plundering, pillage, pillaging]

2. The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
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]

Thesaurus Results for pillaging:

1. Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0
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
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