Nominal Forms
Infinitive: to pillage
Participle: pillaged
Gerund: pillaging
Cognates
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Indicative
Present
| I | pillage |
| you | pillage |
| he;she;it | pillages |
| we | pillage |
| you | pillage |
| they | pillage |
Perfect
| I | have pillaged |
| you | have pillaged |
| he;she;it | has pillaged |
| we | have pillaged |
| you | have pillaged |
| they | have pillaged |
Past
| I | pillaged |
| you | pillaged |
| he;she;it | pillaged |
| we | pillaged |
| you | pillaged |
| they | pillaged |
Pluperfect
| I | had pillaged |
| you | had pillaged |
| he;she;it | had pillaged |
| we | had pillaged |
| you | had pillaged |
| they | had pillaged |
Future
| I | will pillage |
| you | will pillage |
| he;she;it | will pillage |
| we | will pillage |
| you | will pillage |
| they | will pillage |
Future Perfect
| I | will have pillaged |
| you | will have pillaged |
| he;she;it | will have pillaged |
| we | will have pillaged |
| you | will have pillaged |
| they | will have pillaged |
Subjunctive
Present
| I | pillage |
| you | pillage |
| he;she;it | pillage |
| we | pillage |
| you | pillage |
| they | pillage |
Perfect
| I | have pillaged |
| you | have pillaged |
| he;she;it | have pillaged |
| we | have pillaged |
| you | have pillaged |
| they | have pillaged |
Imperfect
| I | pillaged |
| you | pillaged |
| he;she;it | pillaged |
| we | pillaged |
| you | pillaged |
| they | pillaged |
Pluperfect
| I | had pillaged |
| you | had pillaged |
| he;she;it | had pillaged |
| we | had pillaged |
| you | had pillaged |
| they | had pillaged |
Conditional
Present
| I | would pillage |
| you | would pillage |
| he;she;it | would pillage |
| we | would pillage |
| you | would pillage |
| they | would pillage |
Perfect
| I | would have pillaged |
| you | would have pillaged |
| he;she;it | would have pillaged |
| we | would have pillaged |
| you | would have pillaged |
| they | would have pillaged |
Imperative
| you | pillage |
| we | Let's pillage |
| you | pillage |
Verbs conjugated like 'pillage'
abacinate,
abalienate,
abase,
abate,
abbreviate,
abdicate,
abduce,
aberrate,
aberuncate,
abirritate,
abjudge,
abjudicate,
abjugate,
abjure,
ablactate,
ablaqueate,
able,
ablegate,
abligate,
abnegate, etc. (List truncated at 20 verbs)
Verbs similar to 'pillage'
collage,
pillar,
tallage,
ullage,
allege,
bilge,
collate,
dilate,
discage,
disgage,
Synonyms & Antonyms
Synonyms
- to take something that does not belong to one
- abduct, abstract, appropriate, bag, bandit, bone, boost, borrow, burglarize, burgle, cheat, chore, convert, cop, cozen, crib, embezzle, filch, fleece, flog, gaffle, half-inch, heist, jack, kidnap, knock off, kype, kyper, liberate, lift, loot, make off with, mill, misappropriate, moonlight requisition, nick, own, peculate, pickpocket, pilfer, pinch, pirate, plunder, poach, pocket, prig, purloin, raid, ransack, rape, reave, rip, rip off, rob, run off with, snag, snatch, steal, swindle, swipe, thieve, walk off with
- plunder
- ravage, despoil, loot, rape, rob, sack, spoil
Antonyms
- plunder
- expiation, indemnification, indemnity, recompense
Additional Information
Phrasal Verbs
Etymology
1. 1390, "act of plundering" (especially in war), from O.Fr. pillage (n.) "plunder," from piller "to plunder," possibly from V.L. *piliare "to plunder," probably from a fig. use of L. pilare "to strip of hair," perhaps also meaning "to skin" (cf. fig. extension of verbs pluck, fleece). The verb is first recorded c.1592.
2. 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”).
Sample Sentences
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1911, Sabine Baring-Gould, Castles and Cave Dwellings of Europe, Chapter VI: Cliff Castles—Continued,
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Archibald V. (1361-1397) was Count of Perigord. He was nominally under the lilies [France], but he pillaged indiscriminately in his county.
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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. [1927, Ernest Bramah [pseudonym; Ernest Brammah Smith], Max Carrados Mysteries:]