The DICT Development Group

  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.
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           Mummius . . . took, pillaged, and burnt their city.
                                                    --Arbuthnot.
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  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]

  59 Moby Thesaurus words for "pillaging":
     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