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
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
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
