Crossword clues for pillaging
The Collaborative International Dictionary
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.
Wiktionary
vb. (present participle of pillage English)
WordNet
n. the act of stealing valuable things from a place; "the plundering of the Parthenon"; "his plundering of the great authors" [syn: plundering, pillage]
Usage examples of "pillaging".
This raping and pillaging word-fame is uncamed by most Norsemen, I tell you.
They force the delivery to them of wheat worth 40 francs at 24 francs, pillaging the half of it and conveying it off without payment.
Tassin, who can only redeem himself by a contribution of 1,600 livres and the pillaging of his cellars.
Notwithstanding this, the doors and the clothes-presses were broken open, the pillaging lasting five hours and a half.
Domingo and the pillaging of grocers' shops colonial products are dear.
Numerous gangs of vagabonds overrun the country, pillaging and putting to ransom all owners of property.
Pache, a subaltern busy body, a bland, smooth-faced intriguer, who, with his simple air and seeming worth, pushes himself up to the head of the War Department, where he used all its resources for pillaging, and who, born in a door-keeper's lodgings, returns there, either through craft or inclination, to take his dinner.
He seemed to care about nothing except doing as he was told, ravaging and pillaging as it was convenient, and otherwise just waiting around for the next order.
And although there was a good deal of looting going on in the upper city as well, a squadron of men had already fanned out in a one-block radius to make certain that there would be no accidental pillaging of our temporary domicile.
More conquests, I supposed, more pillaging and plundering in my name, but something more.
The soldier himself does the stabbing, hacking, burning, and pillaging, and always receives orders for these actions from men above him.
Cerryl glanced over his shoulder, barely able to see the four lancers acting as his guards through the snow that had begun to fall as he had left the sawmill-snow and cold that helped block off the lingering odors of decay and death and pillaging, snow that gave him a headache, if not one so sharp as from rain.
Conan felt the old tug of the professional fighting-man, to turn his horse and plunge into the fighting, the pillaging and the looting as in the days of old.
In gusts of blood-lust he festooned the gallows in the market square with dangling corpses, glutted the axes of the headsmen and sent his Nemedian horsemen thundering through the land pillaging and burning.
The main parade was a desolate line of ruined stores, their racks emptied by repeated pillagings, but in one store I discovered a domestic-sized glass-cutting instrument, and pocketed it in lieu of there being anything else of worth.