Pillage

Part of speech: noun (n.)

1. The act of pillaging; robbery. Shak.

2. That which is taken from another or others by open force, particularly and chiefly from enemies in war; plunder; spoil; booty. Which pillage they with merry march bring home. Shak.

Synonyms: Plunder; rapine; spoil; depredation. Pillage, Plunder. Pillage refers particularly to the act of stripping the sufferers of their goods, while plunder refers to the removal of the things thus taken; but the words are freely interchanged.

Part of speech: verb (v.)

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.

Part of speech: verb (v.)

To take spoil; to plunder; to ravage. They were suffered to pillage wherever they went. Macaulay.