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掠夺,抢劫,掠夺物掠夺,抢劫
资料来源 : Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
Pillage \Pil"lage\, n. [F., fr. piller to plunder. See {Pill} to
plunder.]
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.
Syn: Plunder; rapine; spoil; depredation.
Usage: {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.
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.
Mummius . . . took, pillaged, and burnt their city.
--Arbuthnot.
Pillage \Pil"lage\, v. i.
To take spoil; to plunder; to ravage.
They were suffered to pillage wherever they went.
--Macaulay.
资料来源 : WordNet®
pillage
n 1: goods or money obtained illegally [syn: {loot}, {booty}, {plunder},
{prize}, {swag}, {dirty money}]
2: the act of stealing valuable things from a place; "the
plundering of the Parthenon"; "his plundering of the great
authors" [syn: {plundering}, {pillaging}]
pillage
v : steal goods; take as spoils; "During the earthquake people
looted the stores that were deserted by their owners"
[syn: {plunder}, {despoil}, {loot}, {reave}, {strip}, {rifle},
{ransack}, {foray}]