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pillaged

/pil-ij/US // ˈpɪl ɪdʒ //UK // (ˈpɪlɪdʒ) //

被掠夺的,被掠夺,被劫掠的,被抢掠的

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Definitions

v.有主动词 verb
  1. 1

    pil·laged, pil·lag·ing.

    • : to strip ruthlessly of money or goods by open violence, as in war; plunder: The barbarians pillaged every conquered city.
    • : to take as booty.
v.无主动词 verb
  1. 1

    pil·laged, pil·lag·ing.

    • : to rob with open violence; take booty: Soldiers roamed the countryside, pillaging and killing.
n.名词 noun
  1. 1
    • : the act of plundering, especially in war.
    • : booty or spoil.

Synonyms & Antonyms

verbplunder, destroy

Examples

  • The charge that did him in was minor compared with the money he pillaged, but it nonetheless sunk him.

  • He was long engaged in sanguinary war with the Turks and the French, who pillaged and destroyed his frontier towns.

  • Their inhabitants shall be dashed in pieces before their eyes: their houses shall be pillaged, and their wives shall be ravished.

  • A commonwealth, oppressed and pillaged by such men as Opimius and Verres, was free, because it had no king.

  • The first were large bands of discharged mercenary soldiers who pillaged the country.

  • He protected the people from stragglers and deserters, who pillaged friend and foe alike.

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