PILLAGING

Pronunciation (US): (GB):

Meaning:

The act of stealing valuable things from a place

Example:

his plundering of the great authors

Synonyms:

pillage; pillaging; plundering

Classified under:

Nouns denoting acts or actions

Hypernyms ("pillaging" is a kind of...):

aggression; hostility (violent action that is hostile and usually unprovoked)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "pillaging"):

banditry (the practice of plundering in gangs)

rape; rapine (the act of despoiling a country in warfare)

looting; robbery (plundering during riots or in wartime)

devastation; ravaging (plundering with excessive damage and destruction)

depredation; predation (an act of plundering and pillaging and marauding)

sack (the plundering of a place by an army or mob; usually involves destruction and slaughter)

Derivation:

pillage (steal goods; take as spoils)

-ing form of the verb pillage