pillage
verb (used with object)
to strip ruthlessly of money or goods by open violence, as in war; plunder.
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I think the best plan would be for the City of Priam to remain unpillaged, but for Menelaus to have his wife Helen sent back to him.’
From The Humour of Homer and Other Essays by R. A. (Richard Alexander) Streatfeild