Thesaurus results for PILLAGED

pillaged

verb

past tense of pillage

as in plundered

to search through with the intent of committing robbery soldiers pillaging the countryside for anything of value

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Recent Examples of pillaged Shopkeepers who’ve found their livelihoods suddenly at stake wonder where the police were while groups looted and pillaged with impunity. — Colette Davidson, Christian Science Monitor, 19 Oct. 2026 But Nolan also throws a meditative new wrinkle into the story, as Odysseus comes to grips with his role in the Trojan War, leading the charge as his men raped, murdered and pillaged in his name. — Patrick Ryan, USA Today, 18 July 2026 For decades, tomb raiders have pillaged sites across the country, selling them on the black market. — Barbie Latza Nadeau, CNN Money, 19 June 2026 North Texas — whose roster was pillaged in the portal and saw its top players leave for Oklahoma State alongside former head coach Eric Morris — have signed 42 transfers. — Shawn McFarland, Dallas Morning News, 16 Jan. 2026 In a landscape of sequels and overly pillaged IP, the Stranger Things finale is finite and close-ended, the credits rolling once and for all. — Yohana Desta, Rolling Stone, 4 Jan. 2026 Many prehistoric structures were pillaged for rock, but a remarkable number are intact. — Alex Ross, New Yorker, 24 Nov. 2025 At the same time, members of the powerful Viv Ansanm gang coalition had pillaged and/or burned at least 410 residences and other buildings, including six schools, health centers and local nongovernmental organizations during the period. — Jacqueline Charles, Miami Herald, 11 Aug. 2025 The document stresses God’s care for people whose lands are being pillaged and who are forced to migrate. — Neomi De Anda, The Conversation, 5 May 2025

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Social media posts and merchant reports said luxury and beauty stores, including Sephora, Celine, Burberry and Louis Vuitton, were plundered.

— Arthur Zaczkiewicz, Footwear News, 19 Oct. 2026
But there is very little archaeological evidence available, given that many of the earliest Egyptian tombs were plundered and/or hastily excavated.

— Jennifer Ouellette, ArsTechnica, 5 Oct. 2026

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Shopkeepers boarded up windows while others opened temporarily and endured a nervous Saturday afternoon, after around 3,000 shops were damaged or looted last weekend.

— ABC News, ABC News, 25 Oct. 2026
Some 3,000 shops across France were damaged or looted over the weekend.

— Richard Engel, NBC news, 24 Oct. 2026

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One looks to the story of the Haitian World Cup team, appearing in the tournament for the first time in fifty years, which has gathered expatriate players from the Haitian diaspora to play for that beautiful and utterly despoiled country, where many of them have never lived.

— Adam Gopnik, New Yorker, 21 June 2026
In the 21st century, oil extraction has become a serious threat to Ecuadoran Amazonia, with large swaths of forest, often located in Indigenous territories, despoiled by the release of wastewater from the wells.

— Stanley Stewart, Travel + Leisure, 10 Jan. 2026

Definition of despoiled

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Offensive line The group was exceptional in the run game and overall did a good job protecting Willis, who was sacked twice by a Jets defense that entered the game fifth in the league in sacks with 17.

— Barry Jackson, Miami Herald, 26 Oct. 2026
Young had three turnovers, got sacked five times, threw for a mere 163 yards and left in the fourth quarter with the Panthers trailing, 43-6.

— Scott Fowler, Charlotte Observer, 26 Oct. 2026

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Last week, Omar’s Washington, DC, home was raided by federal agents from Homeland Security Investigations, an arm of the US Immigration and Customs Enforcement.

— Miles Bryan, Vox, 22 Oct. 2026
The child's parents were killed in September 2019 when Army Rangers, along with Afghan forces, raided a rural compound.

— Arkansas Online, Arkansas Online, 20 Oct. 2026

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