pillage
verb (used with object)
to strip ruthlessly of money or goods by open violence, as in war; plunder.
has pillaged
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present perfectof pillage (3rd person singular).present perfect
Used to describe actions that started in the past and continue into or have direct relevance to the present.
Example Sentences
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‘Well, fare thee well,’ says the hostess whom he has pillaged and forgiven; ‘I have known 264 thee these twenty-nine years, come peas-cod time, but an honester and truer-hearted man—well, fare thee well.’
From Oxford Lectures on Poetry by Andrew Cecil Bradley
