Synonyms & related words for pillage

Find synonyms, related words, and the definition of pillage — including plunder, despoil, loot, ransack, depredate, spoliate. Dendril is a free visual thesaurus that shows them on an interactive map where stronger matches sit closer to the center — no signup, no ads.

Words related to pillage

Explore words related to pillage — words associated with it, words that go with it, and its nearest matches in meaning. Related words include reave, depredator, spoliator, pillager, plunderers, robbing, pilfering, thievery. Click any word to make it the center of the map and keep exploring the web of connections.

Synonyms for pillage

Common synonyms for pillage include plunder, despoil, loot, ransack, depredate, spoliate, rapine, freeboot — words that share a close meaning. Hover or tap any word on the map for its definition and part of speech.

Where does pillage come from?

The word pillage breaks down into 2 roots of Old French and Latin origin: pill, from Old French piller (“to plunder, strip”); and -age, from Latin -aticum (“act of”). Explore each root to see other English words built from the same source.