Definition: pillaged

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Source: WordNet (r) 1.7

pillaged
     adj 1: wrongfully emptied or stripped of anything of value; "the
            robbers left the looted train"; "people returned to
            the plundered village" [syn: looted, plundered, ransacked]
     2: having been robbed and destroyed by force and violence; "the
        raped countryside" [syn: despoiled, raped, ravaged,
        sacked]

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

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.

         Mummius . . . took, pillaged, and burnt their city.
                                                  --Arbuthnot.