Devastate vs Pillage - What's the difference?
devastate | pillage | Synonyms |
To ruin many or all things over a large area, such as most or all buildings of a city, or cities of a region, or trees of a forest.
To destroy a whole collection of related ideas, beliefs, and strongly held opinions.
To break beyond recovery or repair so that the only options are abandonment or the clearing away of useless remains (if any) and starting over.
(ambitransitive) To loot or plunder by force, especially in time of war.
* 1911 , ,
The spoils of war.
* Shakespeare
The act of pillaging.
looting
As verbs the difference between devastate and pillage
is that devastate is to ruin many or all things over a large area, such as most or all buildings of a city, or cities of a region, or trees of a forest while pillage is to loot or plunder by force, especially in time of war.As a noun pillage is
the spoils of war.devastate
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Verb
(devastat)External links
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English
Verb
(pillag)- Archibald V. (1361-1397) was Count of Perigord. He was nominally under the lilies [France], but he pillaged indiscriminately in his county.
Noun
(-)- Which pillage they with merry march bring home.