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Webster 1913 Edition

Pillage

Pil′lage

,
Noun.
[F., fr.
piller
to plunder. See
Pill
to plunder.]
1.
The act of pillaging; robbery.
Shak.
2.
That which is taken from another or others by open force, particularly and chiefly from enemies in war; plunder; spoil; booty.
Which
pillage
they with merry march bring home.
Shakespeare
Syn. – Plunder; rapine; spoil; depredation.
–
Pillage
,
Plunder
. Pillage refers particularly to the act of stripping the sufferers of their goods, while plunder refers to the removal of the things thus taken; but the words are freely interchanged.

Pil′lage

,
Verb.
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
.
Mummius . . . took,
pillaged
, and burnt their city.
Arbuthnot.

Pil′lage

,
Verb.
I.
To take spoil; to plunder; to ravage.
They were suffered to
pillage
wherever they went.
Macaulay.

Webster 1828 Edition

Pillage

PILL'AGE

, n.
1.
Plunder; spoil; that which is taken from another by open force, particularly and chiefly from enemies in war.
2.
The act of plundering.
3.
In architecture, a square pillar behind a column to bear up the arches.

PILL'AGE

,
Verb.
T.
To strip of money or goods by open violence; as, troops pillage the camp or towns of an enemy; to plunder; to spoil. It differs from stealing, as it implies open violence,and from robbery, which may be committed by one individual on another; whereas pillaging is usually the act of bands or numbers. To pillage and to rob are however sometimes used synonymously.

Definition 2024

pillage

pillage

English

Verb

pillage ‎(third-person singular simple present pillages, present participle pillaging, simple past and past participle pillaged)

  1. (transitive, intransitive) To loot or plunder by force, especially in time of war.

Translations

Noun

pillage ‎(uncountable)

  1. The spoils of war.
    • Shakespeare
      Which pillage they with merry march bring home.
  2. The act of pillaging.

Translations

French

Etymology

piller +‎ -age

Noun

pillage m ‎(plural pillages)

  1. pillage

Norman

Etymology

From Old French pillage.

Noun

pillage m ‎(plural pillages)

  1. (Jersey) looting

Related terms

Old French

Noun

pillage m ‎(oblique plural pillages, nominative singular pillages, nominative plural pillage)

  1. pillaging

Related terms

Etymology

From Old French pillage, from piller ‎(“plunder”), from an unattested meaning of Late Latin piliō, probably a figurative use of Latin pilō ‎(“I remove (hair)”), from pilus ‎(“hair”).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈpɪl.ɪdʒ /, /ˈpɪl.ədʒ/
  • Rhymes: -ɪlədʒ

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