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Demolish vs Pillage - What's the difference?

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Demolish is a related term of pillage.


As verbs the difference between demolish and pillage

is that demolish is to destroy; to destruct while pillage is (ambitransitive) to loot or plunder by force, especially in time of war.

As a noun pillage is

the spoils of war.

demolish

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Verb

(es)
  • To destroy; to destruct.
    • They demolished the old house and put up four townhouses.
  • (figuratively) To utterly defeat.
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    pillage

    English

    Verb

    (pillag)
  • (ambitransitive) To loot or plunder by force, especially in time of war.
  • * 1911 , ,
    • Archibald V. (1361-1397) was Count of Perigord. He was nominally under the lilies [France], but he pillaged indiscriminately in his county.

    Noun

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  • The spoils of war.
  • * Shakespeare
    • Which pillage they with merry march bring home.
  • The act of pillaging.

    • Noun

    (m)
  • looting

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