Pillage vs Harry - What's the difference?
pillage | harry |
(ambitransitive) To loot or plunder by force, especially in time of war.
* 1911 , ,
The spoils of war.
* Shakespeare
The act of pillaging.
looting
To bother; to trouble.
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To strip; to lay waste.
* Washington Irving
* J. Burroughs
As a verb pillage
is (ambitransitive) to loot or plunder by force, especially in time of war.As a noun pillage
is the spoils of war.As a proper noun harry is
, also used as a pet form of henry and harold.pillage
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.
Noun
(m)harry
English
Verb
(en-verb)- We shall harry the enemy at every turn until his morale breaks and he is at our mercy.
- (Shakespeare)
- The Northmen came several times and harried the land.
- to harry this beautiful region
- A red squirrel had harried the nest of a wood thrush.