expīlō — meaning in English

English meaning

• pillage verb To loot or plunder a place by force, typically during war.
• plunder verb To steal goods from a place by force, typically during war or unrest.
• ransack verb To search a place thoroughly and roughly, often leaving it in disorder.

Senses

expīlō is used for these senses in English:

• pillage (ambitransitive) To loot or plunder by force, especially in time of war.
• plunder (transitive) To pillage, take or destroy all the goods of, by force (as in war); to raid, sack.
• ransack (transitive) To loot or pillage.

pillage — full definition

1. verb To loot or plunder a place by force, typically during war.
2. noun The act of looting, or the goods taken by looting.

plunder — full definition

1. verb To steal goods from a place by force, typically during war or unrest.
2. verb To take something excessively or wrongfully, as if by looting.
3. noun Goods stolen by force, or the act of taking them.

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