Pillage (?), n. [F., fr. piller to plunder. See Pill to plunder.] 1. The act of pillaging; robbery. Shak.
[1913 Webster]

2. That which is taken from another or others by open force, particularly and chiefly from enemies in war; plunder; spoil; booty.
[1913 Webster]

Which pillage they with merry march bring home. Shak.
[1913 Webster]

Syn. -- Plunder; rapine; spoil; depredation. -- Pillage, Plunder. Pillage refers particularly to the act of stripping the sufferers of their goods, while plunder refers to the removal of the things thus taken; but the words are freely interchanged.
[1913 Webster]

Pillage, v. i. To take spoil; to plunder; to ravage.
[1913 Webster]

They were suffered to pillage wherever they went. Macaulay.
[1913 Webster]