pillage

  • 21pillage — [14] The origins of pillage are disputed. It comes from Old French pillage, a derivative of piller ‘plunder’, but there the consensus breaks down. Some say that piller (which also meant ‘tear up’) was based on pille ‘rag, cloth’, which may have… …

    The Hutchinson dictionary of word origins

  • 22pillage — pil•lage [[t]ˈpɪl ɪdʒ[/t]] v. laged, lag•ing, n. 1) to strip ruthlessly of money or goods by open violence, as in war; plunder 2) to take as booty 3) to rob with open violence; take booty 4) the act of plundering, esp. in war 5) booty • Etymology …

    From formal English to slang

  • 23pillage — [14] The origins of pillage are disputed. It comes from Old French pillage, a derivative of piller ‘plunder’, but there the consensus breaks down. Some say that piller (which also meant ‘tear up’) was based on pille ‘rag, cloth’, which may have… …

    Word origins

  • 24pillage — verb (I, T) if an army pillages a place, it uses violence to steal from and damage a place that it has taken control of in a war; plunder 1 compare loot 2 pillage noun (U) pillager noun (C) …

    Longman dictionary of contemporary English

  • 25pillage — 1. verb 1) the abbey was pillaged Syn: ransack, rob, plunder, despoil, raid, loot; sack, devastate, lay waste, ravage, rape See note at ravage 2) columns pillaged from an ancient …

    Thesaurus of popular words

  • 26pillage — [c]/ˈpɪlɪdʒ / (say pilij) verb (pillaged, pillaging) –verb (t) 1. to strip of money or goods by open violence, as in war; plunder. 2. to take as booty. –verb (i) 3. to rob with open violence; take booty. –noun 4. the act of plundering, especially …

  • 27Pillage de Megalopolis (222 av. J.-C.) — Pillage de Mégalopolis (222 av. J. C.) Sommaire 1 Le Contexte 2 Le déroulement 3 Conséquences 4 Querelle historiographique 5 …

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  • 28Pillage de megalopolis (222 av. j.-c.) — Pillage de Mégalopolis (222 av. J. C.) Sommaire 1 Le Contexte 2 Le déroulement 3 Conséquences 4 Querelle historiographique 5 …

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  • 29Pillage des tombeaux egyptiens — Pillage des tombeaux égyptiens Articles de la série Histoire Périodes Période prédynastique Période thinite  Ancien Empire I …

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  • 30Pillage de La Varenne — Le samedi 10 juin 1944, en représailles à une attaque d un train allemand par des maquisards, le village de La Varenne, près de La Motte Saint Jean et Digoin en Saône et Loire, est victime d une agression au cours de laquelle cinq hommes sont… …

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