pillage

Plural: pillages

Noun

goods or money obtained illegally
the act of stealing valuable things from a place
The spoils of war.
The act of pillaging.

Verb

Verb Forms: pillaged, pillaging, pillages

To rob a place using violence, especially in war.
steal goods; take as spoils
To loot or plunder by force, especially in time of war.

Examples

My opponent tried to pillage my high-scoring word by adding an ’S’, but I blocked it.

Origin / Etymology

From Old French pillage, from piller (“plunder”), from an unattested meaning of Late Latin piliō, probably a figurative use of Latin pilō (“I remove (hair)”), from pilus (“hair”).

Synonyms

booty, despoil, dirty money, foray, loot, pillaging, plunder, plundering, prize, ransack, reave, rifle, strip, swag, harry

Scrabble Score: 10

pillage: valid Scrabble (US) TWL Word
pillage: valid Scrabble Word in Merriam-Webster MW Dictionary
pillage: valid Scrabble Word in International Collins CSW Dictionary

Words With Friends Score: 14

pillage: valid Words With Friends Word