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PILLAGED
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Dictionary entry overview: What does pillaged mean?
• PILLAGED (adjective)
The adjective PILLAGED has 2 senses:
1. wrongfully emptied or stripped of anything of value
2. having been robbed and destroyed by force and violence
Familiarity information: PILLAGED used as an adjective is rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
Wrongfully emptied or stripped of anything of value
Synonyms:
looted; pillaged; plundered; ransacked
Context example:
people returned to the plundered village
Similar:
empty (holding or containing nothing)
Sense 2
Meaning:
Having been robbed and destroyed by force and violence
Synonyms:
despoiled; pillaged; raped; ravaged; sacked
Context example:
the raped countryside
Similar:
destroyed (spoiled or ruined or demolished)
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