pillage
verb (used with object)
to strip ruthlessly of money or goods by open violence, as in war; plunder.
pillager
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a word derived from
pillage.
Example Sentences
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The name ‘Raiders’ has negative connotations — synonyms include pillager, warmonger and aggressor.
From New York Times ● Jun. 30, 2021
He followed this up in 1989 with Erik the Viking, which starred Tim Robbins as a reluctant pillager, and was based on his own children’s book published in 1983.
From The Guardian ● Jan. 22, 2020
My fruit-picking reference might make me sound like a pillager of the environment, out of tune with modern sensibilities, but that’s a problem with our metaphors, not with our reality.
From Nature ● Feb. 11, 2019
Even after he scored a worldwide hit in his first starring role, as a primeval pillager in Conan the Barbarian, he was still seen as a fluke or a freak.
From Time Magazine Archive
Do thou, on thy part, go to the temple of the pillager Minerva; but I will go after Paris, that I may call him, if he is willing to hear me speaking.
From The Iliad of Homer (1873) by Theodore Alois Buckley
