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.
pillaging
n : the act of stealing valuable things from a place; "the
plundering of the Parthenon"; "his plundering of the
great authors" [syn: plundering, pillage]