pillage

Preposition: of

• country: He identified product dumping and pillaging of poor countries as particular problems.
• town: The pillage of a town or place, even when taken by assault is prohibited CHAPTER II On spies Art.
• city: Rupert agreed that there should be no pillaging of the city when his army entered it.
• resource: Colonialism and the pillaging of resources of other people were some of its products.
• wealth: We will only try here to highlight some of them: ' Down with the pillage of French wealth!

Object

• country: For many commanders the war was profitable, enabling them to pillage the country 's resources or deal in illegal goods.
• town: Cyrus lets the army rape and pillage the town, yet he does restrain his men from total destruction.
• world: Attacks like these hurt ordinary workers, and do nothing to distract the warmongers Bush and Blair from pillaging the world, including Iraq.
• village: Armed by the Sudanese government, the Arab Janjaweed militias murder, rape, and pillage African villages with impunity.
• city: Or will the beast prevail and pillage the legendary city of its unimaginable riches?
• resource: The invasion of Iraq was made in order to pillage the resources of Iraq, particularly its oil wealth, and for strategic reasons.

Converse of object

• commit: The IMF is not a philanthropic entity - it presides over the pillage committed by the international bankers.

Adjective modifier

• systematic: Reports of systematic pillage and extortion got back to Paris and inspired the Consulate to find a more controllable alternative.

Modifying Another Word

• not: We must not pillage our children's tomorrow for our comforts today.
• even: You see atheists, who not content with insulting the gods, pillage even their temples.
• then: We then pillage what really should be private, in order to finance the common weal.
• mercilessly: To do so, you will need to navigate shrewdly, fight recklessly and pillage mercilessly.
• much: As soon as the Royalist army entered the city there was, as might be expected, much pillaging and looting.
• also: The Romans were great builders in Britain and local Roman structures were also pillaged for old Roman bricks.