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Desolation vs Pillage - What's the difference?

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Desolation is a related term of pillage.


As nouns the difference between desolation and pillage

is that desolation is desolation while pillage is the spoils of war.

As a verb pillage is

(ambitransitive) to loot or plunder by force, especially in time of war.

desolation

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • The act of desolating or laying waste; destruction of inhabitants; depopulation.
  • The state of being desolated or laid waste; ruin; solitariness]]; destitution; [[gloom, gloominess.
  • A place or country wasted and forsaken.
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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

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

    • Noun

    (m)
  • looting

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