pillage

Reading level: hard

Estimated CEFR level: C1 — Advanced

Estimated from word frequency; not an official CEFR classification.

Definition

  1. noun goods or money obtained illegally
  2. noun the act of stealing valuable things from a place
  3. verb steal goods; take as spoils

Etymology

From Old French pillage, from piller (“plunder”), from an unattested meaning of Late Latin piliō, probably a figurative use of Latin pilō (“to remove (hair)”), from pilus (“hair”).

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Synonyms

loot, booty, plunder, prize, swag, dirty money

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