pillaging

  • 1pillaging — index burglary, foray, predatory, rapacious, spoliation Burton s Legal Thesaurus. William C. Burton. 2006 …

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  • 2Pillaging — Pillage Pil lage, v. i. [imp. & p. p. {Pillaged}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Pillaging}.] To strip of money or goods by open violence; to plunder; to spoil; to lay waste; as, to pillage the camp of an enemy. [1913 Webster] Mummius . . . took, pillaged, and …

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  • 3pillaging — Synonyms and related words: assault, attack, banditry, battering, brigandage, brigandism, butchery, depredation, despoiling, despoilment, despoliation, direption, disorderliness, foraging, foray, forcible seizure, freebooting, killing, laying… …

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  • 4pillaging — pil·lage || pɪlɪdÊ’ n. plundering, taking of spoils, looting v. loot, take spoils, plunder; rob, steal …

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  • 5pillaging — noun the act of stealing valuable things from a place the plundering of the Parthenon his plundering of the great authors • Syn: ↑plundering, ↑pillage • Derivationally related forms: ↑pillage, ↑plunder ( …

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  • 7China–Portugal relations — People s Republic of China relations–Portugal relations Map indicating locations of People s Republic of China and Portugal China …

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  • 9Maurice's Balkan campaigns — Illyricum campaigns of Emperor Maurice Part of the Roman defensive operations in the Danube frontier Date 582 602 Location Illyricum, Pannonia …

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  • 10Constantine I turn against Paganism — evolved during Constantine I s reign, and went from the initial prohibition on the construction of new temples[1] and the toleration of Pagan sacrifices,[2] to orders for the pillaging and the tearing down of pagan temples by the end of his reign …

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