- pillage
- v1. plunder, rob, despoil, Archaic. spoil, spoliate, Chiefly Scot. reive; ravage, harry, rape, maraud, devastate, lay waste, depredate; ransack, sack, loot, gut, fleece, strip, rifle, steal; desecrate, defile, outrage, violate.2. desolate, wreak havoc upon, destroy, damage, ruin, vandalize; burn, level, raze, demolish.3. pirate, freeboot, buccaneer, privateer, filibuster; burglarize, burgle.n4. plunder, plundering, plunderage, rapine, depredation, spoliation, despoliation, despoilment, Obs. direption, raven or ravin; ravaging, harrying, marauding, Archaic. maraud, sack, sacking, Rare. sackage; raid, razzia, foray; foraging, looting, ravishment, seizure, grab, rape.5. devastation, laying waste, desolation; destruction, ruin, burning, razing, leveling, vandalism; desecration, defilement, outrage, violation.6. brigandage, piracy, buccaneering, freebooting, banditry, highway robbery, Obs. latrociny, privateering, filibustering; robbery, theft, thievery, stealing, Law. larceny.7. spoils, loot, plunder, booty, Archaic. boot, Archaic. prey, Scot. Obs. reif; prize, profits, pickings, gain, grab, Inf. haul; All Sl. the take, the goods, boodle, swag.
A Note on the Style of the synonym finder. 2014.