Pil"lage (?), n. [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.
Shak.
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, 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.
Mummius . . . took, pillaged, and burnt their
city.
Arbuthnot.
Pil"lage, v. i. To take spoil; to
plunder; to ravage.
They were suffered to pillage wherever they
went.
Macaulay.
