To ransack or plunder; pillage.
To pillage in search of spoils.
There were no signs of violence or pillage.
To enter by force in order to conquer or pillage.
If we pull legions from the west, the Goths will pillage us instead.
Tribute formerly paid to freebooters along the Scottish border for protection from pillage.
`suppose they stop the trains, pillage the luggage-vans, and scalp the passengers!'
With rare exceptions like Sudan, those who pillage their countries' wealth are accepted into the top ends of global society.
These bandits aren't after ransom, preferring to kill or maroon crews, pillage ships, and sell the cargo under false papers.
“They all just pillage, ” says a skeletal man sheltering in a church. “It doesn't matter which side they are on.”
Because you rejoice and are glad, you who pillage my inheritance, because you frolic like a heifer threshing grain and neigh like stallions.
In some rich countries, such as Japan and Spain, demand for fish is vastly greater than local supply, encouraging fishermen to pillage the world's seas.
As one of the most serious crime trespassing property and personal rights, crime of pillage has been always the key striking object.
The longer the French remained, the more these forms of town life perished, and at the end all was lost in one indistinguishable, lifeless scene of pillage.
And Greece is one of Europe's most fettered economies, where politicians have piled up debt even in good times and treated the state as a source of pillage and patronage.
By the time of Song. the tribe under Li Yuanhao had become quite strong, often intruding into Song territory for plunder and pillage. To placate them, a Song emperor gave his own surname Zhao to the tribe along with a large amount of gold and silver.
