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Adjective: pillaged  pi-lijd
  1. Wrongfully emptied or stripped of anything of value
    "the robbers left the pillaged train";
    - looted, plundered, ransacked
     
  2. Having been robbed and destroyed by force and violence
    "the pillaged countryside";
    - despoiled, raped, ravaged, sacked
Verb: pillage  pi-lij
  1. Steal goods; take as spoils
    "During the earthquake people pillaged the stores that were deserted by their owners";
    - plunder, despoil, loot, reave [archaic], strip, rifle, ransack, foray

See also: destroyed, empty

Type of: take

Encyclopedia: Pillage