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Word entry · 7 letters

pillage

Best crossword clue

"Loot violently"

7 letters · collected on this word page

7 lettersPronunciation /ˈpɪl.ɪd͡ʒ/Part of speech noun, verbSorted aegillpStarts with PEnds with E1 cluesCommon crossword word
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Definitions

  1. the act of stealing valuable things from a place

Word origin

From Old French pillage, from piller (“plunder”), from an unattested meaning of Late Latin piliō, probably a figurative use of Latin pilō (“to remove (hair)”), from pilus (“hair”).

Used in a sentence

  • So far as Pridger was concerned the game was up. He had cooked the buying, he had cooked the selling, he had systematically pillaged the stock.
  • Which pillage they with merry march bring home.

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