pillage
verbEtymology
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”).
- derived from pillage
Definitions
To loot or plunder by force, especially in time of war.
- 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.
The spoils of war.
- Which pillage they with merry march bring home.
The act of pillaging.
- An employee at a brewery in Kinshasa rated the aftermath as more catastrophic to the company than the direct violence: It was more the consequences of the pillages that hit Bracongo – the poverty of the people, our friends who buy beer.
The neighborhood
Vish — recursive loop
A definitional loop anchored at pillage. Each word in the ring is defined by the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself. Scroll to it and watch.
A definitional loop anchored at pillage. Each word in the ring appears in the definition of the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself.
7 hops · closes at pillage
curated · pre-corpus. live cycle detection across the full graph is the next major milestone.
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