Pillage
verb
To rob or steal things from a place or person, often using force and especially during war or conflict.
The soldiers were accused of pillaging villages and towns during the war.
Often appears as...
- pillage a village
- pillage and burn
noun
The act of robbing or stealing things from a place or person, often using force and especially during war or conflict.
The pillage and destruction of the city was witnessed by horrified civilians.
Often appears as...
- act of pillage
- pillage and destruction
verb
To rob or steal things from a place or person, often using force and especially during war or conflict.
The soldiers were accused of pillaging villages and towns during the war.
Often appears as...
- pillage a village
- pillage and burn
noun
The act of robbing or stealing things from a place or person, often using force and especially during war or conflict.
The pillage and destruction of the city was witnessed by horrified civilians.
Often appears as...
- act of pillage
- pillage and destruction
Definition 1 of 2
Pro Tip 1/3Historical Context
Pillage often refers to historical or fantasy settings involving warfare and raids.
Pirates were known for pillaging coastal settlements.
Pro Tip 2/3Negative Connotation
Pillage implies aggressive theft and is considered a negative action.
The conquerors faced criticism for pillaging the conquered city.
Pro Tip 3/3Violent Action
Use 'pillage' when the theft includes violence or force, not peaceful theft.
Marauders would often pillage villages after a battle.
Pro Tip 1/3Historical Context
Pillage often refers to historical or fantasy settings involving warfare and raids.
Pirates were known for pillaging coastal settlements.
Pro Tip 2/3Negative Connotation
Pillage implies aggressive theft and is considered a negative action.
The conquerors faced criticism for pillaging the conquered city.
Pro Tip 3/3Violent Action
Use 'pillage' when the theft includes violence or force, not peaceful theft.
Marauders would often pillage villages after a battle.
Pro Tip 1/3Historical Context
Pillage often refers to historical or fantasy settings involving warfare and raids.
Pirates were known for pillaging coastal settlements.
Pro Tip 2/3Negative Connotation
Pillage implies aggressive theft and is considered a negative action.
The conquerors faced criticism for pillaging the conquered city.
Pro Tip 3/3Violent Action
Use 'pillage' when the theft includes violence or force, not peaceful theft.
Marauders would often pillage villages after a battle.
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The Silk Road:...
and Chinese dynasties rose and fell. Even Mongolian hoards, known for pillage and plunder, actively protected the trade routes, rather than disrupting them. But along with commodities, these routes also enabled the movement of traditions, innovations, ideologies and languages.
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It's a church. It's a...
But it would not remain a church for long. Weakened by the Crusades, Constantinople fell to the Ottomans in 1453 and would be known as Istanbul thereafter. After allowing his soldiers three days of pillage, Sultan Mehmed the Second entered the building.
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Zainab Salbi: Women,...
I find it amazing that the only group of people who are not fighting and not killing and not pillaging and not burning and not raping, and the group of people who are mostly -- though not exclusively -- who are keeping life going in the midst of war,
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Is graffiti art? Or...
that the roots of the modern concept of vandalism were planted. At that time, a barbaric tribe known as the Vandals swept through Rome, pillaging and destroying the city. But it wasn't until centuries later that the term vandalism was actually coined
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From enslavement to...
where his followers would be free. But his vast army had grown brash. Many wanted to continue pillaging, while others dreamed of marching on Rome itself. In the end, the rebel army turned south– forgoing what would be their last chance at freedom.
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Let's Talk About Clean...
I'm hoping that we can learn to coexist with our planet and to cooperatively enjoy its benefits it seems impossible for us not to concur but I'd like to believe in that now we no longer have to pillage the world in order to use it as
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Why museums are...
And it occurred to me then that we do not get to choose the histories that we inherit. Museum curators today did not pillage ancient graves or steal spiritual objects, but we can accept responsibility for correcting past mistakes.
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The rise and fall of the...
Life within the Mongol Empire wasn't just war, pillage and destruction. Once the Mongols conquered a territory, they left its internal politics alone and used local administrators to govern for them.
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A vision for the future...
I was heavily protected, and I lived in luxury. But my obligations to my nation were always superior. Millions of fellow citizens were either displaced or fleeing the violence and pillage of war.
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This tool will help...
such as lying and theft as just or unjust. Euthydemus confidently categorizes them as injustices, but this only prompts another is it just for a general to deceive or pillage a hostile army?
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The Silk Road:...
and Chinese dynasties rose and fell. Even Mongolian hoards, known for pillage and plunder, actively protected the trade routes, rather than disrupting them. But along with commodities, these routes also enabled the movement of traditions, innovations, ideologies and languages.
Video examples
It's a church. It's a...
But it would not remain a church for long. Weakened by the Crusades, Constantinople fell to the Ottomans in 1453 and would be known as Istanbul thereafter. After allowing his soldiers three days of pillage, Sultan Mehmed the Second entered the building.
Video examples
Zainab Salbi: Women,...
I find it amazing that the only group of people who are not fighting and not killing and not pillaging and not burning and not raping, and the group of people who are mostly -- though not exclusively -- who are keeping life going in the midst of war,
Video examples
Is graffiti art? Or...
that the roots of the modern concept of vandalism were planted. At that time, a barbaric tribe known as the Vandals swept through Rome, pillaging and destroying the city. But it wasn't until centuries later that the term vandalism was actually coined
Video examples
From enslavement to...
where his followers would be free. But his vast army had grown brash. Many wanted to continue pillaging, while others dreamed of marching on Rome itself. In the end, the rebel army turned south– forgoing what would be their last chance at freedom.
Video examples
Let's Talk About Clean...
I'm hoping that we can learn to coexist with our planet and to cooperatively enjoy its benefits it seems impossible for us not to concur but I'd like to believe in that now we no longer have to pillage the world in order to use it as
Video examples
Why museums are...
And it occurred to me then that we do not get to choose the histories that we inherit. Museum curators today did not pillage ancient graves or steal spiritual objects, but we can accept responsibility for correcting past mistakes.
Video examples
The rise and fall of the...
Life within the Mongol Empire wasn't just war, pillage and destruction. Once the Mongols conquered a territory, they left its internal politics alone and used local administrators to govern for them.
Video examples
A vision for the future...
I was heavily protected, and I lived in luxury. But my obligations to my nation were always superior. Millions of fellow citizens were either displaced or fleeing the violence and pillage of war.
Video examples
This tool will help...
such as lying and theft as just or unjust. Euthydemus confidently categorizes them as injustices, but this only prompts another is it just for a general to deceive or pillage a hostile army?
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Dmitri Alperovitch
Russian Businessman
A rapidly growing number of nation states have determined that cyberespionage is a highly valuable tool not only to steal national and military secrets but also to pillage the most valuable business information from international competitors and pass it on to domestic industries to help them out-innovate and out-negotiate their rivals.
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Richard Schiff
American Actor
I imagine an America that can actually change. That we become a nation that prospers again but without pillaging the resources of nations that make their people hate us. That we become a nation that, as the constitution says in its preamble, its very first paragraph, 'promotes the general welfare' of its people.
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Steve Sabol
American Director
The autumn wind is a pirate. Blustering in from sea with a rollicking song he sweeps along swaggering boisterously. His face is weather beaten, he wears a hooded sash with a silver hat about his head... The autumn wind is a Raider, pillaging just for fun.
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Bruce Vilanch
American Comedian
My assistant says I'm an eBay auction waiting to happen. I have a very large collection of T-shirts... about 4,000 now. Maybe I'll pillage it someday. I have resisted the offers to do a line of T-shirts.
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Fidel Castro
Statesman
Mubarak was oppressing and pillaging his own people. He was an enemy to the Palestinians and an accomplice of Israel, the sixth nuclear power on the planet, associated with the war-mongering NATO group.
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Barbara Amiel
British Journalist
Dictatorships do cut down on rape, and pillage, not to mention sexual harassment, by the simple expedient of sending people to labour camps for life or cutting off their hands without a trial.
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Khalil Gibran
Lebanese Poet
Where is the justice of political power if it executes the murderer and jails the plunderer, and then itself marches upon neighboring lands, killing thousands and pillaging the very hills?
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Nostradamus
French Celebrity
A soldier of fortune with twisted tongue will come to pillage the sanctuary of the gods; To the heretics he will open the gate, thus stirring up the Church militant.
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Phyllis Logan
Scottish Actress
Why do people want to kill and maim and pillage? We're all in it together.
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Albert Camus
French Philosopher
To govern means to pillage, as everyone knows.
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Dmitri Alperovitch
Russian Businessman
A rapidly growing number of nation states have determined that cyberespionage is a highly valuable tool not only to steal national and military secrets but also to pillage the most valuable business information from international competitors and pass it on to domestic industries to help them out-innovate and out-negotiate their rivals.
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Richard Schiff
American Actor
I imagine an America that can actually change. That we become a nation that prospers again but without pillaging the resources of nations that make their people hate us. That we become a nation that, as the constitution says in its preamble, its very first paragraph, 'promotes the general welfare' of its people.
Quote examples
Steve Sabol
American Director
The autumn wind is a pirate. Blustering in from sea with a rollicking song he sweeps along swaggering boisterously. His face is weather beaten, he wears a hooded sash with a silver hat about his head... The autumn wind is a Raider, pillaging just for fun.
Quote examples
Bruce Vilanch
American Comedian
My assistant says I'm an eBay auction waiting to happen. I have a very large collection of T-shirts... about 4,000 now. Maybe I'll pillage it someday. I have resisted the offers to do a line of T-shirts.
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Fidel Castro
Statesman
Mubarak was oppressing and pillaging his own people. He was an enemy to the Palestinians and an accomplice of Israel, the sixth nuclear power on the planet, associated with the war-mongering NATO group.
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Barbara Amiel
British Journalist
Dictatorships do cut down on rape, and pillage, not to mention sexual harassment, by the simple expedient of sending people to labour camps for life or cutting off their hands without a trial.
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Khalil Gibran
Lebanese Poet
Where is the justice of political power if it executes the murderer and jails the plunderer, and then itself marches upon neighboring lands, killing thousands and pillaging the very hills?
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Nostradamus
French Celebrity
A soldier of fortune with twisted tongue will come to pillage the sanctuary of the gods; To the heretics he will open the gate, thus stirring up the Church militant.
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Phyllis Logan
Scottish Actress
Why do people want to kill and maim and pillage? We're all in it together.
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Albert Camus
French Philosopher
To govern means to pillage, as everyone knows.
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