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Pillaged

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Adjective

1. looted, pillaged, plundered, ransacked

wrongfully emptied or stripped of anything of value

Example Sentences:
'the robbers left the looted train'
'people returned to the plundered village'

2. despoiled, pillaged, raped, ravaged, sacked

having been robbed and destroyed by force and violence

Example Sentences:
'the raped countryside'

WordNet Lexical Database for English. Princeton University. 2010.

Pillaged

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verb
1. 
to rob (a town, village, etc) of (booty or spoils), esp during a war
noun
2. 
the act of pillaging
3. 
something obtained by pillaging; booty

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Pillaged

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noun
1. 
the act of plundering
2. 
that which is plundered; booty; loot
verb transitiveWord forms: ˈpillaged or ˈpillaging
3. 
to deprive of money or property by violence; loot
4. 
to take as booty or loot
verb intransitive
5. 
to engage in plunder; take loot

Webster’s New World College Dictionary, 4th Edition. Copyright © 2010 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. All rights reserved.

Pillaged

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v. pil·laged, pil·lag·ing, pil·lag·es
v.tr.
1. To rob of goods by force, especially in time of war; plunder.
2. To take as spoils.
v.intr.
To take spoils by force.
n.
1. The act of pillaging.
2. Something pillaged; spoils.

The American Heritage ® Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth Edition copyright ©2018 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.

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