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pillage
English
Etymology
From Old French pillage, from piller (“plunder”), from an unattested meaning of Late Latin pili?, probably a figurative use of Latin pil? (“I remove (hair)”), from pilus (“hair”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /?p?l.?d?/, /?p?l.?d?/
- Rhymes: -?l?d?
Verb
pillage (third-person singular simple present pillages, present participle pillaging, simple past and past participle pillaged)
- (transitive, intransitive) To loot or plunder by force, especially in time of war.
- 1911, Sabine Baring-Gould, Castles and Cave Dwellings of Europe, Chapter VI: Cliff Castles—Continued,
- Archibald V. (1361-1397) was Count of Perigord. He was nominally under the lilies [France], but he pillaged indiscriminately in his county.
- 1911, Sabine Baring-Gould, Castles and Cave Dwellings of Europe, Chapter VI: Cliff Castles—Continued,
Translations
Noun
pillage (countable and uncountable, plural pillages)
- The spoils of war.
- The act of pillaging.
- 2013, Zoë Marriage, Formal Peace and Informal War: Security and Development in Congo
- An employee at a brewery in Kinshasa rated the aftermath as more catastrophic to the company than the direct violence: It was more the consequences of the pillages that hit Bracongo – the poverty of the people, our friends who buy beer.
- 2013, Zoë Marriage, Formal Peace and Informal War: Security and Development in Congo
Synonyms
- (spoils of war): See Thesaurus:booty
Translations
French
Etymology
piller +? -age
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /pi.ja?/
Noun
pillage m (plural pillages)
- pillage
Norman
Etymology
From Old French pillage.
Noun
pillage m (plural pillages)
- (Jersey) looting
Related terms
- pilleux (“looter”)
Old French
Noun
pillage m (oblique plural pillages, nominative singular pillages, nominative plural pillage)
- pillaging
Related terms
- piller
Descendants
- ? English: pillage
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spoils
English
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /sp??lz/
- Rhymes: -??lz
Noun
spoils pl (plural only)
- That which is taken from another by violence; especially, the plunder taken from an enemy; pillage; booty.
- Public offices and their benefits regarded as the peculiar property of a successful party or faction, to be bestowed for its own advantage.
- To the victor belong the spoils.
Synonyms
- (that which is taken from another by violence): See Thesaurus:booty
See also
- manubial
Translations
Verb
spoils
- Third-person singular simple present indicative form of spoil
- Milk spoils when left out too long.
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