pillage vs robbery
robbery vs pillagepillage and robbery both are nouns.
pillage is a verb but robbery is not a verb.
| Word | Noun | Adjective | Verb | Adverb |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| pillage | Yes | No | Yes | No |
| robbery | Yes | No | No | No |
As nouns,
robbery is a hyponym of
pillage; that is, robbery is a
word with a more specific, narrower meaning than
pillage:
- pillage: the act of stealing valuable things from a place
- robbery: plundering during riots or in wartime
Other hyponyms of pillage include
banditry, rape, rapine, looting, despoilation, despoilment, despoliation, spoil, spoilation, spoliation, devastation, ravaging, depredation, predation, sack.
| pillage (noun) | robbery (noun) |
|---|---|
| the act of stealing valuable things from a place | larceny by threat of violence |
| goods or money obtained illegally | plundering during riots or in wartime |
| pillage (verb) | robbery (verb) |
|---|---|
| steal goods; take as spoils |
Words related to "pillage"
- aggression
- banditry
- booty
- cut
- deplume
- depredation
- despoil
- despoilation
- despoilment
- despoliation
- devastation
- dirty money
- displume
- foray
- hostility
- loot
- looting
- pillager
- pillaging
- plunder
- plundering
- predation
- prize
- ransack
- rape
- rapine
- ravaging
- reave
- rifle
- robbery
- sack
- spoil
- spoilation
- spoliation
- stolen property
- strip
- swag
- take
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