Synonyms for pillage
- verb
- noun
Synonyms by meaning
Verb
plunder, ransack, loot, despoil, ravage, rape, rifle, rob, sack, devastate, strip, harry, havoc, waste, foray, prey on, pinch, rapine, swipe, filch, picaroon, thieve
Noun
1. Booty
booty, dirty money, prize US, prise UK, swag
2. Plundering
plundering, destruction, devastation, depredation, robbery, spoliation, despoliation
Definitions
- v. 1
To loot or plunder by force, especially in time of war.
- n. 1
The spoils of war.
- n. 2
The act of pillaging.
Choose the right word
Pillage refers particularly to the act of stripping the sufferers of their goods, while plunder refers to the removal of the things thus taken; but the words are freely interchanged.
Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
Example sentences
- loot The thieves divided their loot among themselves.
- plunder They lived for deeds of daring and plunder.
By length
- 3 letters
- rob1
- 4 letters
- rape1, sack1, loot1, swag
- 5 letters
- waste1, harry2, prize1, strip1, rifle2, pinch1, swipe1, booty2, havoc2, foray2, prise, filch1
- 6 letters
- ravage2, bootle, thieve1, rapine
- 7 letters
- robbery3, plunder2, ransack2, despoil
- 8 letters
- picaroon
- 9 letters
- devastate3, expiation
- 10 letters
- plundering3, spoliation
- 11 letters
- destruction3, devastation4, depredation4
- 12 letters
- despoliation
The small number after each word is its number of syllables (harry2 = 2 syllables).
In other languages
- Français
- piller
- Italiano
- saccheggiare
- Deutsch
- plündern