Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary · 1913

Pillage

Pillage , noun

[French, from piller to plunder. See Pill to plunder.]

1.
The act of pillaging; robbery. — Shakespeare
2.
That which is taken from another or others by open force, particularly and chiefly from enemies in war; plunder; spoil; booty.
Which pillage they with merry march bring home. — Shakespeare

Pillage , intransitive verb

To strip of money or goods by open violence; to plunder; to spoil; to lay waste; as, to pillage the camp of an enemy.
Mummius... took, pillaged, and burnt their city. — Arbuthnot

Pillage , intransitive verb

To take spoil; to plunder; to ravage.
They were suffered to pillage wherever they went. — Macaulay