pillaging's Usage Examples:

During modern-day armed conflicts, pillaging is prohibited by international law, and constitutes a war crime.

civilians, the use of child soldiers, sexual enslavement, torture, and pillaging.

Much of the collection has been lost due to pillaging, poorly recorded investigation and war, and although more than fifty individuals.

deadline, Croatian troops, led by Miljenko Crnjac, marched into the area, pillaging and burning the villages.

Xerigordos, about four days' march from Nicaea, in an attempt to set up a pillaging outpost.

By pillaging the cities and shores and slaughtering many men, he became extremely wealthy.

Sultan Murad III threatened Poland–Lithuania with war if the Cossack pillaging was to continue.

Because the siege failed to take the city, the Muslims resorted to pillaging the countryside surrounding it before they retired.

When the Crusaders were pillaging the surrounding countryside during the siege of Aleppo in 1124, the city's.

As a result, the viceroy, who had also heard of Jennings' pillaging the shore camp, was "outraged," and contacted Hamilton to demand the pirates.

occasion, the glensmen having become so enraged at the tax collectors' pillaging, not only killed them all, but cut off their heads and threw them into.

state-managed campaign of ever-increasing harassment, arrests, systematic pillaging, forced transfer of ownership to Nazi Party activists (managed by the.

of medieval warfare for weakening the enemy, primarily by burning and pillaging enemy territory in order to reduce the productivity of a region, as opposed.

Blenda led the rural women of Värend in an attack on a pillaging Danish army and annihilated the invaders.

took part in the Tsargrad expeditions of the 10th century and mounted pillaging raids to Finland in the 12th century (compare Swedish–Novgorodian Wars).

After pillaging the suburbs of the Byzantine capital, the Rus' retreated for the day and.

Years of bloody invasions by Thai and Vietnamese soldiers, pillaging by Chinese bandits in the nineteenth century and a monsoon of bombs that.

early as 1592, when an Englishman, Sir James Lancaster, arrived and began pillaging other vessels around Penang Island.

usually spent the summers pillaging.

One summer, he plundered in Jutland and entered Limfjorden, where he continued the pillaging.

Synonyms:

rape; spoil; devastation; despoliation; looting; aggression; pillage; despoilation; ravaging; hostility; robbery; predation; rapine; plundering; banditry; spoilation; despoilment; sack; depredation; spoliation;

Antonyms:

peace; hot war; love; unacquisitive; hire;