pillage
verb (used with object)
to strip ruthlessly of money or goods by open violence, as in war; plunder.
is pillaging
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present progressiveof pillage (3rd person singular).present progressive
Used to describe an ongoing action or state that is currently taking place in the immediate present.
Example Sentences
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What Church is it whose sacred vessels, lamps, and ornaments he is pillaging, whose ritual he overthrows?
From Ten Reasons Proposed to His Adversaries for Disputation in the Name of the Faith and Presented to the Illustrious Members of Our Universities by Edmund Campion
