Meaning of "pillage" in the English dictionary

ETYMOLOGY OF THE WORD PILLAGE

Via Old French from piller to despoil, probably from peille rag, from Latin pīleus felt cap.

Etymology is the study of the origin of words and their changes in structure and significance.

PRONUNCIATION OF PILLAGE

pillage  [ˈpɪlɪdʒ]

GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF PILLAGE

Pillage is a verb and can also act as a noun.

A noun is a type of word the meaning of which determines reality. Nouns provide the names for all things: people, objects, sensations, feelings, etc.

The verb is the part of the sentence that is conjugated and expresses action and state of being.

See the conjugation of the verb pillage in English.

WHAT DOES PILLAGE MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Looting

Looting, also referred to as sacking, plundering, despoiling, despoliation, and pillaging, is the indiscriminate taking of goods by force as part of a military or political victory, or during a catastrophe, such as war, natural disaster, or rioting. The term is also used in a broader sense to describe egregious instances of theft and embezzlement, such as the "plundering" of private or public assets by corrupt or greedy authorities. Looting is loosely distinguished from scavenging in terms of objects taken: scavenging implies taking of essential items such as food, water, shelter, or other material needed for survival while looting implies items of luxury or not necessary for survival such as art work, precious metals or other valuables. The proceeds of all these activities can be described as loot, plunder, spoils, or pillage.

Definition of pillage in the English dictionary

The first definition of pillage in the dictionary is to rob of, esp during a war. Other definition of pillage is the act of pillaging. Pillage is also something obtained by pillaging; booty.

CONJUGATION OF THE VERB TO PILLAGE

PRESENT

Present

I pillage

you pillage

he/she/it pillages

we pillage

you pillage

they pillage

Present continuous

I am pillaging

you are pillaging

he/she/it is pillaging

we are pillaging

you are pillaging

they are pillaging

Present perfect

I have pillaged

you have pillaged

he/she/it has pillaged

we have pillaged

you have pillaged

they have pillaged

Present perfect continuous

I have been pillaging

you have been pillaging

he/she/it has been pillaging

we have been pillaging

you have been pillaging

they have been pillaging

Present tense is used to refer to circumstances that exist at the present time or over a period that includes the present time. The present perfect refers to past events, although it can be considered to denote primarily the resulting present situation rather than the events themselves.

PAST

Past

I pillaged

you pillaged

he/she/it pillaged

we pillaged

you pillaged

they pillaged

Past continuous

I was pillaging

you were pillaging

he/she/it was pillaging

we were pillaging

you were pillaging

they were pillaging

Past perfect

I had pillaged

you had pillaged

he/she/it had pillaged

we had pillaged

you had pillaged

they had pillaged

Past perfect continuous

I had been pillaging

you had been pillaging

he/she/it had been pillaging

we had been pillaging

you had been pillaging

they had been pillaging

Past tense forms express circumstances existing at some time in the past,

FUTURE

Future

I will pillage

you will pillage

he/she/it will pillage

we will pillage

you will pillage

they will pillage

Future continuous

I will be pillaging

you will be pillaging

he/she/it will be pillaging

we will be pillaging

you will be pillaging

they will be pillaging

Future perfect

I will have pillaged

you will have pillaged

he/she/it will have pillaged

we will have pillaged

you will have pillaged

they will have pillaged

Future perfect continuous

I will have been pillaging

you will have been pillaging

he/she/it will have been pillaging

we will have been pillaging

you will have been pillaging

they will have been pillaging

The future is used to express circumstances that will occur at a later time.

CONDITIONAL

Conditional

I would pillage

you would pillage

he/she/it would pillage

we would pillage

you would pillage

they would pillage

Conditional continuous

I would be pillaging

you would be pillaging

he/she/it would be pillaging

we would be pillaging

you would be pillaging

they would be pillaging

Conditional perfect

I would have pillage

you would have pillage

he/she/it would have pillage

we would have pillage

you would have pillage

they would have pillage

Conditional perfect continuous

I would have been pillaging

you would have been pillaging

he/she/it would have been pillaging

we would have been pillaging

you would have been pillaging

they would have been pillaging

Conditional or "future-in-the-past" tense refers to hypothetical or possible actions.

IMPERATIVE

Imperative

you pillage
we let´s pillage
you pillage

The imperative is used to form commands or requests.

NONFINITE VERB FORMS

Infinitive

to pillage

Past participle

pillaged

Present Participle

pillaging

Infinitive shows the action beyond temporal perspective. The present participle or gerund shows the action during the session. The past participle shows the action after completion.

SYNONYMS OF «PILLAGE»

The following words have a similar or identical meaning as «pillage» and belong to the same grammatical category.

synonyms of pillage

booty · depredate · depredation · despoil · devastation · freeboot · loot · maraud · marauding · plunder · raid · ransack · rapine · ravage · reive · rifle · rob · robbery · sack · sacking · spoil · spoils · spoliate · spoliation · strip

TRANSLATION OF PILLAGE

Find out the translation of pillage to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.

The translations of pillage from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «pillage» in English.

• Translator English - Chinese: 掠夺
• Translator English - Spanish: saquear
• English: pillage
• Translator English - Hindi: लूट
• Translator English - Arabic: النهب
• Translator English - Russian: грабеж
• Translator English - Portuguese: pilhar
• Translator English - Bengali: লুঠতরাজ
• Translator English - French: piller
• Translator English - Malay: Penculikan
• Translator English - German: plündern
• Translator English - Japanese: 略奪する
• Translator English - Korean: 약탈하다
• Translator English - Javanese: Pillage
• Translator English - Vietnamese: cướp phá
• Translator English - Tamil: அழிந்துபடுவதற்கு
• Translator English - Marathi: लूट
• Translator English - Turkish: talan
• Translator English - Italian: saccheggiare
• Translator English - Polish: grabież
• Translator English - Ukrainian: грабіж
• Translator English - Romanian: jaf
• Translator English - Greek: λεηλασία
• Translator English - Afrikaans: roof
• Translator English - Swedish: plundring
• Translator English - Norwegian: plyndring

5 QUOTES WITH «PILLAGE»

Famous quotes and sentences with the word pillage.

1

Barbara Amiel

Dictatorships do cut down on rape, and pillage, not to mention sexual harassment, by the simple expedient of sending people to labour camps for life or cutting off their hands without a trial.

2

Eli Khamarov

To admit there is no god is to provide free license to pillage and rape with clear conscience.

3

Pete Laney

'Reform' is pillage and plunder if you're against it, and it's good government if you're for it.

4

Phyllis Logan

Why do people want to kill and maim and pillage? We're all in it together.

5

Bruce Vilanch

My assistant says I'm an eBay auction waiting to happen. I have a very large collection of T-shirts... about 4,000 now. Maybe I'll pillage it someday. I have resisted the offers to do a line of T-shirts.

10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «PILLAGE»

Discover the use of pillage in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to pillage and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.

Pillage

The first book in a new trilogy. When 15-year-old Beck Phillips travels by train to the secluded village of Kingsplot to live with his wealthy but estranged uncle, Beck discovers some dark family secrets.

Obert Skye, 2010

Pillage

Be it urban wildebeest Aeronymous, the wigga with a taste for BAPE sweaters and iced coffees; the Fireman, the overgrown adolescent who knows the quickest way to your ex-girlfriend’s bed; or the Reverend, who rejected the sins of his ...

Brantly Martin, 2009

Open Veins of Latin America: Five Centuries of the Pillage ...

[In this book, the author's] analysis of the effects and causes of capitalist underdevelopment in Latin America present [an] account of.

Eduardo Galeano, 1997

It Takes a Pillage: An Epic Tale of Power, Deceit, and ...

More than just an angry populist, commentator stuck on the sidelines, Prins understand Big Finance and big money and big schemes-and in this book she exposes the fundamental follies of our economic system and the schemes of the bigwigs who ...

Nomi Prins, 2009

Patterns of Pillage: A Geography of Caribbean-Based Piracy ...

Patterns of Pillage offers a fresh, geographical perspective on the story of piracy in and around the Caribbean.

Peter R. Galvin, 1999

The Pillage of Sustainablility in Eritrea, 1600s-1990s: ...

Demonstrates an approach, using Eritrea as a case study, for carrying out an in-depth analysis of the sustainability of traditional rural communities, the impact of local and external actors on them, and the use of the analysis to design ...

Niaz Murtaza, 1998

Murder, Mayhem, Pillage, and Plunder: The History of the ...

Subtitled: The history of Lebanon in the 18th and 19th centuries, this is an intimate picture of the internecine strife and fierce clan rivalry that was rampant in the period.

Mikhāʼīl Mishāqah, 1988

The Pirate Handbook: A Rogue's Guide to Pillage, Plunder, ...

Featuring a removable replica of an actual pirate map, detailed illustrations, real recipes from the Golden Age of Piracy, plus the lore of the real-life pirates who roamed the waters of the Caribbean and beyond, this is the ultimate guide ...

Pat Croce, 2011

Electronic Circuit & System Simulation Methods (SRE)

This comprehensive volume reveals how, using basic principles of elementary circuit analysis along with familiar numerical methods, readers can build up sophisticated electronic simulation tools capable of analyzing large, complicated ...

Lawrence Pillage, 1998

Development of Global Prohibition Regimes: Pillage and Rape ...

In terms of its dealings with pillage, the Brussels Code was very strong. Article 39 said: “Pillage is formally forbidden.” Article 18 also stated “A town taken by assault should not be given over to pillage by the victorious troops.” Besides the other ...

Tuba Inal, 2008

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «PILLAGE»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term pillage is used in the context of the following news items.

New Space Age Offers Investors Infinite Opportunities to Explore

The final frontier is ripe for pillage. After much blue-sky thinking, the smart money has lit on, well, blue sky, or rather the dark stuff beyond it, ... «Newsweek, Jul 15»

Obama to wade into South Sudan peace drive

... his engagement on the issue to make clear that there will be accountability for economic crimes, including pillage and grand corruption,” said ... «The Guardian Nigeria, Jul 15»

Turkey's fight against IS not enough to stop militants

Reports that its oil- and pillage-based economy in the areas of Syria and Iraq it controls is collapsing only strengthen the view that this violent, ... «Hindustan Times, Jul 15»

Greece and the European Union

The creditors ignored the obvious risks because Greek rulers were their willing accomplices in the ongoing pillage. Clearly entry into and ... «Dissident Voice, Jul 15»

Ex-Hasid's death bares anguish of leaving ultra-Orthodox sect

Imagine you have been told for your entire life that in the secular world, people mainly rape, pillage and murder, that it's all a lawless ... «New York Post, Jul 15»

He does a heart good

It appears that a giant Irish setter with a New York accent is accusing the Mexican people of sweeping across the U.S. border to pillage the ... «Arkansas Online, Jul 15»

Greenpeace campaign in the Canary Islands for renewable energy

Spanish Monster Boats pillage the oceans through overfishing EU fishing quota reductions for Spain fail to tackle the real issue, say ... «Spanish News Today, Jul 15»

Menendez leaves prison, makes plans for Florida

... launched by the mutineers to seek supplies in the Spanish Caribbean islands but which developed into pillage and plundering expeditions. «Tallahassee.com, Jul 15»

These intelligent, ruthless gulls have no fear of man

Gulls will pillage what they can - and clean up city streets of rubbish before dawn - visit landfill sites and, being clever and resourceful gatherers ... «Irish Independent, Jul 15»

Just being here is a success

If Gary (Maguire) makes a save from that goal chance and Dublin can pillage a goal at the other end they've a great chance." They are far from ... «Irish Independent, Jul 15»