Thesaurus / pillage
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What reliance could repose upon a house, divided against itself—not safe from the extravagance and pillage of its own members?
BLACKWOOD'S EDINBURGH MAGAZINE, NO. CCCXXXIX. JANUARY, 1844. VOL. LV.VARIOUSCuenca, Spain, taken by the French under Caulincourt, and given up to pillage.
THE EVERY DAY BOOK OF HISTORY AND CHRONOLOGYJOEL MUNSELLSo there was pillage and raiding across the Parrett, and at last Ina had sent messages to Gerent concerning it.
A PRINCE OF CORNWALLCHARLES W. WHISTLERHe gave up the town to pillage and rapine, allowing the doing of such deeds as have consigned his name to well-merited infamy.
ELSIE'S VACATION AND AFTER EVENTSMARTHA FINLEYNever forget our rule: 'A true vagabond, twenty-four hours after a pillage, must have nothing left but his skin and his knife.'
THE PILGRIM'S SHELL OR FERGAN THE QUARRYMANEUGNE SUEOf the Crusaders who entered the Mosque of Omar for pillage, some waded in blood to their waists.
THE PILGRIM'S SHELL OR FERGAN THE QUARRYMANEUGNE SUEEven the King himself was not slow to pillage: he was discontented with the indemnity offered, and threatened to loot the city.
FLORENCE AND NORTHERN TUSCANY WITH GENOAEDWARD HUTTONThere were incessant irruptions of different tribes passing from one country to another, in search of plunder and pillage.
BEACON LIGHTS OF HISTORY, VOLUME VJOHN LORDLa ville fut mise au pillage par les soldatz du camp, qui se firent gentis compaignons.
HISTORY OF THE RISE OF THE HUGUENOTSHENRY BAIRDChristians and Mohammedans have fought for it; it has withstood sieges and bombardments, and known massacres and pillage.
THE COMPLETE CLUB BOOK FOR WOMENCAROLINE FRENCH BENTONWORDS RELATED TO PILLAGE
- bane
- bankrupt
- beggar
- botch
- break
- bust
- crush
- decimate
- deface
- defeat
- defile
- demolish
- deplete
- deplore
- depredate
- desecrate
- despoil
- destroyer
- destruction
- devour
- dilapidate
- disfigure
- do in
- downfall
- drain
- exhaust
- fleece
- impoverish
- injure
- maim
- make a mess of
- mangle
- mar
- mutilate
- overthrow
- overturn
- overwhelm
- pauperize
- pillage
- rape
- ravish
- raze
- reduce
- sack
- shatter
- smash
- spoil
- total
- undoing
- use up
- wipe out
- wrack
- wreck
- wrecker
- abduct
- appropriate
- blackmail
- burglarize
- carry off
- cheat
- cozen
- defraud
- despoil
- divert
- embezzle
- heist
- hold for ransom
- hold up
- housebreak
- keep
- kidnap
- lift
- loot
- make off with
- misappropriate
- peculate
- pilfer
- pillage
- pinch
- pirate
- plagiarize
- plunder
- poach
- purloin
- ransack
- remove
- rifle
- rip off
- run off with
- sack
- shoplift
- snitch
- spirit away
- stick up
- strip
- swindle
- swipe
- take
- take possession of
- thieve
- walk off with
- withdraw
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