pillage
verb (used with object)
to strip ruthlessly of money or goods by open violence, as in war; plunder.
had pillaged
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past perfectof pillage.past perfect
Used to express a completed action that took place before another specific past action occurred.
Example Sentences
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Serrano spent his life alleging that he’d given Rulfo a manuscript of his poetry that was never returned — and that Rulfo had pillaged it for ideas.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 28, 2023
Prosecutors and Cambodian officials say Mr. Latchford obtained the items sold to Mr. Clark from a looting network that had pillaged them systematically for decades and trafficked them through Thailand, where Mr. Latchford was based.
From New York Times ● Jan. 12, 2022
District Judge Karin J. Immergut heard from victims who recounted how they were duped by Nathan Wheeler’s cordial, personable manner only to be devastated to learn how he had pillaged their life savings.
From Washington Times ● Oct. 25, 2019
He read about the Zapatistas, and about how the Spanish had pillaged Latin America.
From The New Yorker ● Dec. 4, 2016
This application was no more successful than Holbein's own, apparently; and the painter was told to seek his father's gold and pigments among the peasants who had pillaged the monastery.
From Holbein by Beatrice Fortescue
