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pillaging
WORDNET DICTIONARY
Noun pillaging has 1 sense
- pillaging(n = noun.act) pillage, plundering - the act of stealing valuable things from a place; "the plundering of the Parthenon"; "his plundering of the great authors" is a kind of aggression, hostility
has particulars: banditry, rape, rapine, looting, robbery, despoilation, despoilment, despoliation, spoil, spoilation, spoliation, devastation, ravaging, depredation, predation, sack
Derived form verb pillage1
THESAURUS
pillaging
assault, attack, banditry, battering, brigandage, brigandism, butchery, depredation, despoiling, despoilment, despoliation, direption, disorderliness, foraging, foray, forcible seizure, freebooting, killing, laying waste, looting, marauding, massacre, obstreperousness, onslaught, pillage, plunder, plundering, plunderous, predacious, predacity, predatory, raid, raiding, ransacking, rapaciousness, rapacity, rape, rapine, ravage, ravagement, ravaging, ravenousness, ravishment, razzia, reiving, rifling, riot, rioting, sack, sacking, sharkishness, slaughter, sowing with salt, spoiling, spoliation, spoliatory, unruliness, violation, wolfishness
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