rifle vs pillage

rifle and pillage both are nouns.

Word	Noun	Adjective	Verb	Adverb
rifle	Yes	No	Yes	No
pillage	Yes	No	Yes	No

As verbs, rifle and pillage are synonyms defined as:

Other synonyms of rifle include despoil, foray, loot, plunder, ransack, reave, strip.

rifle (noun)	pillage (noun)
a shoulder firearm with a long barrel and a rifled bore	the act of stealing valuable things from a place
	goods or money obtained illegally

rifle (verb)	pillage (verb)
go through in search of something; search through someone's belongings in an unauthorized way	steal goods; take as spoils
steal goods; take as spoils