Definition of "pillage"

pillage

/ˈpɪl.ɪd͡ʒ/

verb
third-person singular simple present pillages, present participle pillaging, simple past and past participle pillaged
1. (transitive, intransitive) To loot or plunder by force, especially in time of war.
  Quotations
  Archibald V. (1361-1397) was Count of Perigord. He was nominally under the lilies [France], but he pillaged indiscriminately in his county.
  1911, Sabine Baring-Gould, Castles and Cave Dwellings of Europe, Chapter VI: Cliff Castles—Continued
noun
countable and uncountable, plural pillages
1. The spoils of war.
  Quotations
  Which pillage they with merry march bring home.
  1599, William Shakespeare, “The Life of Henry the Fift”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, [Act I, scene ii]
2. The act of pillaging.
  Quotations
  An employee at a brewery in Kinshasa rated the aftermath as more catastrophic to the company than the direct violence: It was more the consequences of the pillages that hit Bracongo – the poverty of the people, our friends who buy beer.
  2013, Zoë Marriage, Formal Peace and Informal War: Security and Development in Congo