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PILLAGING
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Dictionary entry overview: What does pillaging mean?
• PILLAGING (noun)
The noun PILLAGING has 1 sense:
1. the act of stealing valuable things from a place
Familiarity information: PILLAGING used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
The act of stealing valuable things from a place
Classified under:
Nouns denoting acts or actions
Synonyms:
pillage; pillaging; plundering
Context example:
his plundering of the great authors
Hypernyms ("pillaging" is a kind of...):
aggression; hostility (violent action that is hostile and usually unprovoked)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "pillaging"):
banditry (the practice of plundering in gangs)
rape; rapine (the act of despoiling a country in warfare)
looting; robbery (plundering during riots or in wartime)
despoilation; despoilment; despoliation; spoil; spoilation; spoliation (the act of stripping and taking by force)
devastation; ravaging (plundering with excessive damage and destruction)
depredation; predation (an act of plundering and pillaging and marauding)
sack (the plundering of a place by an army or mob; usually involves destruction and slaughter)
Derivation:
pillage (steal goods; take as spoils)
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