Pillage vs. Theft — What's the Difference?

To take as spoils.

Theft is the taking of another person's property or services without that person's permission or consent with the intent to deprive the rightful owner of it. The word theft is also used as an informal shorthand term for some crimes against property, such as burglary, embezzlement, larceny, looting, robbery, shoplifting, library theft or fraud.

To rob of goods by force, especially in time of war; plunder.

The action or crime of stealing

To take spoils by force.

The unlawful taking of the property of another; larceny

The act of pillaging.

An instance of such taking

Something pillaged; spoils.

(Obsolete) Something stolen.

(ambitransitive) To loot or plunder by force, especially in time of war.

The act of stealing property.

The spoils of war.

The act of stealing; specifically, the felonious taking and removing of personal property, with an intent to deprive the rightful owner of the same; larceny.

The act of pillaging.

The thing stolen.

The act of pillaging; robbery.

The act of taking something from someone unlawfully;

That which is taken from another or others by open force, particularly and chiefly from enemies in war; plunder; spoil; booty.

To strip of money or goods by open violence; to plunder; to spoil; to lay waste; as, to pillage the camp of an enemy.

To take spoil; to plunder; to ravage.

Goods or money obtained illegally

The act of stealing valuable things from a place;

Steal goods; take as spoils;