pillage
Collocations
4ADJ.
merry
VERB + PILLAGE
began
PILLAGE + NOUN
algeria
PREP.
in, with
Definitions
verb
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.
noun
The spoils of war.
Which pillage they with merry march bring home.
The act of pillaging.
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.
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41911, 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
WiktionaryWhich pillage they with merry march bring home.
WiktionaryAn 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 t
WiktionaryFrance began to pillage Algeria in 1830.
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