Definition: pillaging

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Source: WordNet (r) 1.7 

pillaging
     n : the act of stealing valuable things from a place; "the
         plundering of Rome"; "his plundering of the great
         authors" [syn: plundering, pillage]

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.