Antonyms for pillage
ˈpɪl ɪdʒpil·lage

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1. 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, simoleons

2. plundering, 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, pillaging

3. plunder, 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 WordsRate these synonyms:2.0 / 1 vote

1. pillagenoun

   Synonyms:
   devastation, plundering, rapine, spoliation, spoil, plunder, booty, loot

2. pillageverb

   Synonyms:
   sack, plunder, despoil, devastate, foray

How to use pillage in a sentence?

1. Fatou Bensouda:

   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.

2. Eli Bremer:

   When we push our production to third-world countries, they pollute their lands, we are going to third-world countries and demanding that they pillage their lands so that we can have green technologies.

3. Geoffrey Duke:

   More weapons will mean more fuel to the fire, more attacks on civilians, arbitrary killings, rape, burnings and pillage.

4. Marianne Moore:

   War is pillage versus resistance and if illusions of magnitude could be transmuted into ideals of magnanimity, peace might be realized.

5. Suu Kyi:

   They are not free to rape, pillage and torture, they are free to go in and fight. That is in the constitution. Military matters are to be left to the army.

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