Pillaged

2 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Pillage \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.
     [1913 Webster]
  


           Mummius . . . took, pillaged, and burnt their city.
                                                    --Arbuthnot.
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From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  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}]