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Antonyms for pillage
ˈpɪl ɪdʒpil·lage
This page is about all possible antonyms and opposite words for the term pillage.
Princeton's WordNet
loot, booty, pillage, plunder, prize, swag, dirty moneynoun
goods or money obtained illegally
Synonyms:
shekels, cabbage, dirty money, pillaging, bread, lettuce, swag, prize, sugar, wampum, kale, lucre, clams, trophy, award, gelt, dinero, scratch, boodle, dough, moolah, lolly, plundering, pelf, loot, plunder, booty, simoleonsplundering, pillage, pillagingverb
the act of stealing valuable things from a place
"the plundering of the Parthenon"; "his plundering of the great authors"
Synonyms:
prize, booty, plunder, plundering, swag, loot, dirty money, pillagingplunder, despoil, loot, reave, strip, rifle, ransack, pillage, forayverb
steal goods; take as spoils
"During the earthquake people looted the stores that were deserted by their owners"
Synonyms:
foray, comb, disrobe, spoil, clean, discase, leach, rape, divest, violate, sack, dismantle, strip, unclothe, undress, reave, rifle, denude, uncase, denudate, strip down, despoil, go, ransack, loot, deprive, peel, plunder, bare, disinvest
Synonyms, Antonyms & Associated Words
pillagenoun
Synonyms:
devastation, plundering, rapine, spoliation, spoil, plunder, booty, lootpillageverb
How to use pillage in a sentence?
We believe he ordered his troops to attack, pillage, rape, persecute and kill civilians belonging to Lendu, Ngiti and other ethnic groups, we believe he recruited hundreds of children into the UPC (Union of Congolese Patriots) and used them to kill and to die in the fighting; and girl soldiers to be routinely raped.
War is pillage versus resistance and if illusions of magnitude could be transmuted into ideals of magnanimity, peace might be realized.
Habre's conviction for these horrific crimes after 25 years is a huge victory for his Chadian victims, the verdict sends a powerful message that the days when tyrants could brutalize their people, pillage their treasury and escape abroad to a life of luxury are coming to an end.
More weapons will mean more fuel to the fire, more attacks on civilians, arbitrary killings, rape, burnings and pillage.
The verdict sends a powerful message that the days when tyrants could brutalize their people, pillage their treasury and escape abroad to a life of luxury are coming to an end.
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