pillage
Noun
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Goods or money obtained illegally (synset 113283562)
is a type of: stolen property - property that has been stolenhas: cut - a share of the profits
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The act of stealing valuable things from a place (synset 100967999)
"the plundering of the Parthenon"; "his plundering of the great authors"is a type of: aggression, hostility - violent action that is hostile and usually unprovokedsubtypes:
- banditry - the practice of plundering in gangs
- rape, rapine - the act of despoiling a country in warfare
- looting, robbery - plundering during riots or in wartime
- despoilation, despoilment, despoliation, spoil, spoilation, spoliation - the act of stripping and taking by force
- devastation, ravaging - plundering with excessive damage and destruction
- depredation, predation - an act of plundering and pillaging and marauding
- sack - the plundering of a place by an army or mob; usually involves destruction and slaughter
same as: pillaging, plundering
Verb
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Steal goods;
Take as spoils (synset 202349564)"During the earthquake people looted the stores that were deserted by their owners"is a type of: take - take by force
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