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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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