pillage
verb (used with object)
to strip ruthlessly of money or goods by open violence, as in war; plunder.
was pillaging
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past progressiveof pillage.past progressive
Used to describe an ongoing action or continuous state that was happening at a specific time in the past.
Example Sentences
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Didn't we fight a foreign power about 250 years ago or so that was pillaging our land and property?
From New York Times ● Nov. 20, 2017
But even on this interpretation of the law Sterne must be condemned; for in decking out Tristram with feathers from the history of Gargantua he was pillaging a homogeneous work.
From Adventures in Criticism by Sir Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch
Gustavus marched southward, but soon returned to attack Wallenstein, who had moved northward, and was pillaging the neighborhood of Leipsic.
From Great Men and Famous Women. Vol. 1 A series of pen and pencil sketches of the lives of more than 200 of the most prominent personages in History by Charles F. (Charles Francis) Horne
