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To loot or plunder by force
“Pillage the village! Stomp on the farms with your boots! Pillage! Pillage! Pillage the village! Eat all the horses and steal all the loot!”
To steal or pilfer, especially by plundering or raiding
“Since the natives could not afford to trade on such monopolistic terms, they began to pillage goods from the warehouses of the Royal Niger Company.”
To ravage or devastate a place or land by plundering it
“Neither then, as they are Greeks, will they pillage the lands, or burn the houses of Greeks.”
To confront through the use of military force
To impoverish or financially ruin
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