pillage

名词 n. 动词 v.
中文释义

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. The spoils of war. countable,uncountable
    — Which pillage they with merry march bring home.
  2. The act of pillaging. countable,uncountable
    — 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.
动词 v.
  1. To loot or plunder by force, especially in time of war. ambitransitive
    — 1911, Sabine Baring-Gould, Castles and Cave Dwellings of Europe, Chapter VI: Cliff Castles—Continued, Archibald V. (1361-1397) was Count of Perigord. He was nominally under the lilies [France], but he pillaged indiscriminately in his county.

词形变化

pillages present,singular,third-person pillaging participle,present pillaged participle,past pillaged past pillages plural

词源

词源 1
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”).
词源 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”).
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