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Pillage
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(pillages, pillaging, pillaged) If a group of people pillage a place, they steal property from it using violent methods. Soldiers went on a rampage, pillaging stores and shooting. ...the boldness to pillage and rape. = plunder VERB: V n, V • Pillage is also a noun. There were no signs of violence or pillage. N-UNCOUNT • pillaging ...pillaging by people looking for something to eat. N-UNCOUNT
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I. noun Etymology: Middle English pilage, from Anglo-French, from piler to rob, plunder Date: 14th century 1. the act of looting or plundering especially in war 2. something taken as booty II. verb (~d; pillaging) Date: circa 1592 transitive verb to plunder ruthlessly ; loot intransitive verb to take booty Synonyms: see ravage • ~r noun ...Merriam-Webster Collegiate Dictionary
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v. & n. --v.tr. (also absol.) plunder; sack (a place or a person). --n. the act or an instance of pillaging, esp. in war. Derivatives pillager n. Etymology: ME f. OF f. piller plunder ...Толковый словарь английского языка Oxford English Reference
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1. грабеж, ограбление 2. мародерство 3. награбленное (добро), добыча 4. грабить 5. мародерствовать ...Новый большой англо-русский словарь
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~ v if an army ~s a place, it uses violence to steal from and damage a place that it has taken control of in a war; plunder1 (- compare loot2) - ~ n - ~r n ...Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
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- 14c., "act of plundering" (especially in war), from O.Fr. pillage (n.) "plunder," from piller "to plunder," possibly from V.L. *piliare "to plunder," of uncertain origin. The verb is first recorded 1592. ...Английский Этимологический словарь
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