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pillage
(redirected from pillagers)

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pillage noun appropriation, booty, brigandage, deprivation, despoilment, despoliation, destruction, devestation, foray, havoc, maraud, piracy, plunder, plunderage, prey, raid, ransack, rapacity, rapina, rapine, ravage, razzia, sack, spoliation, vandalism
pillage verb bring to ruin, burglarize, damage, depredate, desolate, despoil, destroy, devastate, lay in ashes, lay in ruins, lay waste, level, loot, make a shambles, make havoc, maraud, pirate, plunder, raid, reave, rob, ruin, ruinate, sabotage, sack, spoil, steal, strip, thieve, waste, wreck
Associated concepts: larceny
See also: confiscate, despoil, devastate, harry, havoc, hold up, loot, pilfer, pirate, plunder, prey, prize, rape, rob, seize, spoils, spoliation, steal

PILLAGE. The taking by violence of private property by a victorious army from the citizens or subjects of the enemy. This, in modern times, is seldom allowed, and then, only when authorized by the commander or chief officer, at the place where the pillage is committed. The property thus violently taken in general belongs to the common soldiers. See Dall. Dict. Propriete, art. 3, Sec. 5; Wolff, Sec. 1201; and Booty; Prize.



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Certainly Hutton claimed to have heard the mob harangued by a man who declared that it was owing to Hutton that he had lost a case in the court, whilst one of the pillagers urged the others on because he had been forced to pay fifteen shillings in the court.
Although the majority of Scandinavian settlers in Iceland were more farmers and traders than rampaging pillagers, it was nonetheless a time where bad blood between tribes meant a cycle of murder and revenge.
The member of San JosE[umlaut]'s Consejo Interno who had been tasked with escorting us to the f[sz]brica assured us that he had plenty of experience with pillagers of crops and livestock, and admitted that the FARC showed a greater tendency toward reimbursement for devoured or destroyed items than did other armed formations.
 
 
 
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