pillage

pillage is a 7-letter English word with 7 senses as noun, intransitive verb, and verb in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: The act of pillaging; robbery. Face value is 10 in Scrabble and 14 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.

7 letters · Scrabble 10 · Words With Friends 14 · 7 senses

Definitions

1. noun. The act of pillaging; robbery.
2. noun. That which is taken from another or others by open force, particularly and chiefly from enemies in war; plunder; spoil; booty.
3. intransitive verb. To strip of money or goods by open violence; to plunder; to spoil; to lay waste; as, to pillage the camp of an enemy.
4. intransitive verb. To take spoil; to plunder; to ravage.
5. noun. the act of stealing valuable things from a place

   "the plundering of the Parthenon"

   "his plundering of the great authors"

   Synonyms: pillaging, plundering

6. noun. goods or money obtained illegally

   Synonyms: booty, loot, plunder, prize, swag

7. verb. steal goods; take as spoils

   "During the earthquake people looted the stores that were deserted by their owners"

   Synonyms: despoil, foray, loot, plunder, ransack, reave, rifle, strip

Synonyms

pillaging, plundering, booty, loot, plunder, prize, swag, despoil, foray, ransack, reave, rifle, strip

Common word forms

pillaged, pillager, pillages, pillaging, pillageable

Words from these letters

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