pillaging

pillaging
    n 1: the act of stealing valuable things from a place; "the
         plundering of the Parthenon"; "his plundering of the great
         authors" [syn: {plundering}, {pillage}, {pillaging}]
    

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.
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         Mummius . . . took, pillaged, and burnt their city.
                                                  --Arbuthnot.
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59 Moby Thesaurus words for "pillaging":
      assault, attack, banditry, battering, brigandage, brigandism,
      butchery, depredation, despoiling, despoilment, despoliation,
      direption, disorderliness, foraging, foray, forcible seizure,
      freebooting, killing, laying waste, looting, marauding, massacre,
      obstreperousness, onslaught, pillage, plunder, plundering,
      plunderous, predacious, predacity, predatory, raid, raiding,
      ransacking, rapaciousness, rapacity, rape, rapine, ravage,
      ravagement, ravaging, ravenousness, ravishment, razzia, reiving,
      rifling, riot, rioting, sack, sacking, sharkishness, slaughter,
      sowing with salt, spoiling, spoliation, spoliatory, unruliness,
      violation, wolfishness