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to pillage

verb

To loot or plunder by force, especially in time of war.

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"I'm not trying to pillage McGwire.

"The gay men are coming in to pillage.

"The janjaweed have taken advantage of the troubles to pillage.

Power-starved Russian generals were encouraged to pillage at will.

Here and throughout his career he flouted military custom by forbidding his men to pillage.

Merkel did not visit Athens to pillage; she was there to try to help the Greeks.

Only those mobile enough to scavenge, brutal enough to pillage would survive.

And yet if everybody surged out to pillage the woodlands, the impact would be disastrous.

It has nothing but the makings of someone coming to pillage our neighborhood".

Part of the tragedy, the documentary reveals, is that Palestinian prisoners were forced to pillage books from each other's homes.

Yet that peace is fragile, and Ms. Wol knows that the northern forces may come back to pillage again.

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