pillaging
pi li jing
- n the act of stealing valuable things from a place
- v steal goods; take as spoils
- It has all the makings of a suspenseful swashbuckler: a mysterious ship, sunken treasure, the threat of midnight raids and the pillaging of priceless cultural artifacts.
- British MPs warned him that pillaging was a crime for which he could be shot.
- Genghis Khan operated in the context of the nomadic steppe, where pillaging villages was the norm.