Antonyms for pillage

Grammar : Verb

Spell : pil-ij

Phonetic Transcription : ˈpɪl ɪdʒ

Definition of pillage

Origin : late 14c., "act of plundering" (especially in war), from Old French pilage (14c.) "plunder," from pillier "to plunder, loot, ill-treat," possibly from Vulgar Latin *piliare "to plunder," probably from a figurative use of Latin pilare "to strip of hair," perhaps also meaning "to skin" (cf. figurative extension of verbs pluck, fleece), from pilus "a hair" (see pile (n.3)).

verb plunder, destroy

Example sentences :

That did not prevent us giving that admirable city up to pillage.
Extract from : « My Double Life » by Sarah Bernhardt

The whole city seemed to be abandoned to pillage—to destruction.
Extract from : « Beaux and Belles of England » by Mary Robinson

Their disunion, the consequence of their avidity, saved it from ruin, but not from pillage.
Extract from : « Memoirs of the Court of St. Cloud, Complete » by Lewis Goldsmith

According to his own account he had saved the post-office from pillage.
Extract from : « The Fortune of the Rougons » by Emile Zola

This was hostile country, and he gave it over to the Hellenes to pillage.
Extract from : « Anabasis » by Xenophon

Perhaps they were satisfied to appease their madness with pillage and fire.
Extract from : « The Vagrant Duke » by George Gibbs

No, no; pillage had never been the motive of him who entered here.
Extract from : « Maurice Tiernay Soldier of Fortune » by Charles James Lever

Assassinations and pillage are too rife to make absence easy.
Extract from : « Charles Lever, His Life in His Letters, Vol. I (of II) » by Edmund Downey

"Why, the fellows have not even risen to the dignity of pillage," said he.
Extract from : « Tony Butler » by Charles James Lever

In such a world, what guarantee against the pillage of the Third Temple?
Extract from : « Dreamers of the Ghetto » by I. Zangwill

Synonyms for pillage

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