• IPA: /ˈpɪl.ɪdʒ/, /ˈpɪl.ədʒ/

pillage (pillages, present participle pillaging; past and past participle pillaged)

1. (ambitransitive) To loot or plunder by force, especially in time of war.
   • 1911, Sabine Baring-Gould, Castles and Cave Dwellings of Europe, Chapter VI: Cliff Castles—Continued,

     Archibald V. (1361-1397) was Count of Perigord. He was nominally under the lilies [France], but he pillaged indiscriminately in his county.

• French: piller
• German: plündern
• Italian: saccheggiare
• Portuguese: pilhar, saquear
• Russian: гра́бить
• Spanish: saquear

pillage

1. The spoils of war.

   • 1599, William Shakespeare, “The Life of Henry the Fift”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies: Published According to the True Originall Copies (First Folio), London: Printed by Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, OCLC 606515358 ↗, [Act I, scene ii]:

     Which pillage they with merry march bring home.

2. The act of pillaging.
   • 2013, Zoë Marriage, Formal Peace and Informal War: Security and Development in Congo

     An employee at a brewery in Kinshasa rated the aftermath as more catastrophic to the company than the direct violence: It was more the consequences of the pillages that hit Bracongo – the poverty of the people, our friends who buy beer.

• (spoils of war) seeSynonyms en

• French: pillage
• Italian: bottino
• Portuguese: saque, butim
• Russian: награ́бленное добро́

• French: pillage
• German: Plünderung
• Italian: saccheggio
• Portuguese: saque, pilhagem
• Russian: грабёж
• Spanish: saqueo, pillaje