Pilloried vs Pillaged - What's the difference?
pilloried | pillaged |
(pillory)
A framework on a post, with holes for the hands and head, used as a means of punishment and humiliation.
To put in a pillory.
To subject to humiliation, scorn, ridicule or abuse.
To criticize harshly.
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, year=2011
, date=September 24
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(pillage)
(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 pilloried and pillaged
is that pilloried is past tense of pillory while pillaged is past tense of pillage.pilloried
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Verb
(head)pillory
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(wikipedia pillory)Noun
(pillories)Verb
(en-verb)citation, page= , passage=The breakthrough came through Torres who, pilloried for his miss against Manchester United a week earlier, scored his second goal of the season.}}
pillaged
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(head)pillage
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(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.