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From: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

 Pil·lage, v. i. [imp. & p. p. Pillaged p. pr. & vb. n. Pillaging ] 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.

From: WordNet (r) 2.0

 pillaged
      adj 1: wrongfully emptied or stripped of anything of value; "the
             robbers left the looted train"; "people returned to
             the plundered village" [syn: looted, plundered, ransacked]
      2: having been robbed and destroyed by force and violence; "the
         raped countryside" [syn: despoiled, raped, ravaged,
         sacked]