Meaning & use
pillaging
The act of violently stealing goods and property, typically during a war, raid, or riot.
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Soldiers were strictly forbidden from pillaging homes in the villages they passed through.
Historians described the widespread pillaging that followed the fall of the city.
A note on using this word
Pillaging almost always implies violence or wartime chaos, distinguishing it from ordinary theft.
Words with a similar meaning
lootingplundering
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