Pillage

(n.) The act of pillaging; robbery.

(n.) That which is taken from another or others by open force, particularly and chiefly from enemies in war; plunder; spoil; booty.

(v. i.) To strip of money or goods by open violence; to plunder; to spoil; to lay waste; as, to pillage the camp of an enemy.

(v. i.) To take spoil; to plunder; to ravage.

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• How many there are I did not ask; but I could not think of allowing them to pillage the house, as it were. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 雪莉.
• Conquerors have gone forth with the blessing of popes; a nation invokes its God before beginning a campaign of murder, rape and pillage. 沃尔特·李普曼. 政治序论.
• In 389 A.D ne of the libraries at Alexandria was destroyed and its books were pillaged by t he Christians. 李贝. 西洋科学史.
• That gentleman's eye fell on his desk, pillaged. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 雪莉.
• Désirée was kept in some measure from the servants, but she teased and pillaged her mamma instead. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 维莱特.
• They stormed the city and pillaged it (1527). 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
• Promiscuous pillaging, however, was discouraged and punished. 尤利西斯·格兰特. U．S．格兰特的个人回忆录.

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