Definitions
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- verb Present participle of
pillage .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun the act of stealing valuable things from a place
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Examples
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This pillaging is taking place against the backdrop of an ever-increasing racial/economic divide.
Richard (RJ) Eskow: Payday Lenders: How Wall Street's "Undercover Brothers" Exploit Minorities RJ 2010
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This pillaging is taking place against the backdrop of an ever-increasing racial/economic divide.
Richard (RJ) Eskow: Payday Lenders: How Wall Street's "Undercover Brothers" Exploit Minorities RJ 2010
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This pillaging is taking place against the backdrop of an ever-increasing racial/economic divide.
Richard (RJ) Eskow: Payday Lenders: How Wall Street's "Undercover Brothers" Exploit Minorities RJ 2010
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This pillaging is taking place against the backdrop of an ever-increasing racial/economic divide.
Richard (RJ) Eskow: Payday Lenders: How Wall Street's "Undercover Brothers" Exploit Minorities RJ 2010
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What's a decline in pillaging-proficiency and a history of being a tad taken-advantage-of when, on the whole, modern man has it so good?
Testosterone Put to the Test Dave Shiflett 2010
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Since 1589, predatory behavior has been characterized by pillaging, plundering and robbery.
The Right Word in the Right Place at the Right Time William Safire 2004
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Since 1589, predatory behavior has been characterized by pillaging, plundering and robbery.
The Right Word in the Right Place at the Right Time William Safire 2004
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But, with that audacity which seems to be the common characteristic of Transatlantic Republics, Mexican Governments of every party have been foremost in pillaging, insulting, threatening, and even taking the lives of foreign residents.
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They undertook to besiege the rebels of Adrianople; and such was the pious tendency of the crusades that they employed the holy week in pillaging the country for their subsistence, and in framing engines for the destruction of their fellow —
The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire 1206
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Elizabeth Warren, chair of the Congressional Oversight Panel, together with an unfortunately short list of advocacy groups and elected officials is working hard to protect us and put an end to what can only be described as the pillaging of American working families.
Richard Zombeck: Mr. Zombeck Goes to Washington and Needs Your Bank Horror Stories 2010
jmjarmstrong commented on the word pillaging
JM recommends pillaging before burning.
July 17, 2011
GHibbs commented on the word pillaging
I associate pillaging with looting (stealing from shops and other places that have already been damaged) , setting on fire and destroying.
August 23, 2011