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say it: PIL-i-jing
pillaging is a noun meaning "the act of stealing valuable things from a place". It is pronounced /ˈpɪlɪdʒɪŋ/ — PIL-i-jing. It carries one recorded sense.
the act of stealing valuable things from a place
“the plundering of the Parthenon”
“his plundering of the great authors”
Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for pillaging come from Princeton University’s WordNet. The pronunciation comes from the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.