Pillage vs. Theft

Pillageverb

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

Theftnoun

The act of stealing property.

Pillagenoun

The spoils of war.

Theftnoun

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.

Pillagenoun

The act of pillaging.

Theftnoun

The thing stolen.

‘If the theft be certainly found in his hand alive, . . . he shall restore double.’;

Pillagenoun

The act of pillaging; robbery.

Theftnoun

the act of taking something from someone unlawfully;

‘the thieving is awful at Kennedy International’;

Pillagenoun

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

‘Which pillage they with merry march bring home.’;

Theftnoun

the action or crime of stealing

‘the latest theft happened at a garage’; ‘he was convicted of theft’;

Pillageverb

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

‘Mummius . . . took, pillaged, and burnt their city.’;

Theft

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.

Pillageverb

To take spoil; to plunder; to ravage.

‘They were suffered to pillage wherever they went.’;

Pillagenoun

goods or money obtained illegally

Pillagenoun

the act of stealing valuable things from a place;

‘the plundering of the Parthenon’; ‘his plundering of the great authors’;

Pillageverb

steal goods; take as spoils;

‘During the earthquake people looted the stores that were deserted by their owners’;