|
pillage 音标拼音: [p'ɪlɪdʒ] n. 掠夺,抢劫,掠夺物
vt.
vi. 掠夺,抢劫 掠夺,抢劫,掠夺物掠夺,抢劫 pillage n 1: goods or money obtained illegally [ synonym: { loot}, { booty}, { pillage}, { plunder}, { prize}, { swag}, { dirty money}] 2: the act of stealing valuable things from a place; " the plundering of the Parthenon"; " his plundering of the great authors" [ synonym: { plundering}, { pillage}, { pillaging}] v 1: steal goods; take as spoils; " During the earthquake people looted the stores that were deserted by their owners" [ synonym: { plunder}, { despoil}, { loot}, { reave}, { strip}, { rifle}, { ransack}, { pillage}, { foray}] Pillage \ Pil" lage\, n. [ F., fr. piller to plunder. See { Pill} to plunder.] 1. The act of pillaging; robbery. -- Shak. [ 1913 Webster] 2. That which is taken from another or others by open force, particularly and chiefly from enemies in war; plunder; spoil; booty. [ 1913 Webster] Which pillage they with merry march bring home. -- Shak. [ 1913 Webster] Syn: Plunder; rapine; spoil; depredation. Usage: { Pillage}, { Plunder}. Pillage refers particularly to the act of stripping the sufferers of their goods, while plunder refers to the removal of the things thus taken; but the words are freely interchanged. [ 1913 Webster]
Pillage \ Pil" lage\, v. i. [ imp. & p. p. { Pillaged}; p. pr. & vb. n. { Pillaging}.] To strip of money or goods by open violence; to plunder; to spoil; to lay waste; as, to pillage the camp of an enemy. [ 1913 Webster] Mummius . . . took, pillaged, and burnt their city. -- Arbuthnot. [ 1913 Webster]
Pillage \ Pil" lage\, v. i. To take spoil; to plunder; to ravage. [ 1913 Webster] They were suffered to pillage wherever they went. -- Macaulay. [ 1913 Webster] 123 Moby Thesaurus words for " pillage": abduct, appropriate, arrogate, assault, attack, banditry, barbarize, batter, booty, brigandage, brigandism, brutalize, buccaneering, burn, butcher, carry off, carry on, confiscate, defilement, demolish, demolition, depredate, depredation, desecrate, desolate, despoil, despoiling, despoilment, despoliation, destroy, destruction, devastate, devastation, devour, direption, encroach, filch, fleece, forage, foraging, foray, freeboot, freebooting, go on, gut, hammer, invade, kidnap, lay waste, laying waste, level, lift, loot, looting, maraud, marauding, maul, mug, nab, pilfer, pillaging, pinch, piracy, plunder, plundering, prey on, purloin, rage, raid, raiding, ramp, rampage, ransack, ransacking, rant, rape, rapine, ravage, ravagement, ravaging, rave, raven, ravish, ravishment, raze, razing, razzia, reive, reiving, rifle, rifling, riot, roar, rob, robbery, ruin, sack, sacking, savage, shanghai, slaughter, sow chaos, spoil, spoiling, spoils, spoliate, spoliation, storm, strip, stripping, sweep, swipe, tear, tear around, terrorize, thieve, throttle, trespass, usurp, vandalize, violate, waste, wreck
|
安装中文字典英文字典查询工具!
中文字典英文字典工具:
英文字典中文字典相关资料:
|