pillage

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n. 掠夺, 抢劫, 掠夺物, 战利品 v. 掠夺, 抢劫

发音

US /ˈpɪl.ɪd͡ʒ/
AU /ˈpɪl.ɪd͡ʒ/

词形变化

pillages 复数 pillages pillaged pillages 三单 pillageth pillaging pillaging 现在分词 pillaged 过去式 pillaged 过去分词

释义与例句

n.
  1. 1.

    The spoils of war.

    可数 不可数
  2. 2.

    The act of pillaging.

    可数 不可数
v.
  1. 1.

    To loot or plunder by force, especially in time of war.

    掠夺

    及物/不及物

    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.

    1927, Ernest Bramah, Max Carrados Mysteries 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.

词汇关系

名词

同义词 7

prize booty loot plunder swag plundering dirty money

上位词 2

aggression hostility

下位词 10

rape robbery sack spoil looting devastation banditry depredation despoilation despoilment

部分词 1

cut
动词

同义词 8

strip rifle loot plunder ransack foray despoil reave

上位词 1

take

下位词 2

deplume displume

词源

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”).

来源：wiktionary