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.
pillaged
adj 1: wrongfully emptied or stripped of anything of value; "the
robbers left the looted train"; "people returned to
the plundered village" [syn: looted, plundered, ransacked]
2: having been robbed and destroyed by force and violence; "the
raped countryside" [syn: despoiled, raped, ravaged,
sacked]