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Перевод: pillage

[существительное]
грабеж ; ограбление; мародерство;
[глагол]
грабить; мародерствовать

Тезаурус:

1. Instead, the information disseminated is designed to make too many people comfortable with the idea that these horrifying centuries of murder and pillage have been a fight for justice and democracy.
2. Some trial and error should eliminate the laziest papers, whose critics do no more than pillage catalogue introductions, or even press releases.
3. The prompt action by South Pacific countries to deal with the drift-net plague provided a marked contrast to the situation in the North Pacific high seas, where the US had been dragging its heels as the Asian drift-net fleets continued to pillage the salmon, tuna, and squid resources, and kill tens of thousands of marine mammals and hundreds of thousands of sea birds, many of them in Alaskan fisheries waters.
4. He and Bob Allen enjoyed "hours of paradise" escorting the Miss Evanses home on Saturdays, and would bring them "the pillage of the flower-gardens with sonnet or love-rhyme wrapped round the nose-gay".
5. Writing the preface to Fanon's The Wretched of the Earth (1961) Jean-Paul Sartre remarked the violence and duplicity of European humanism in the colonial context; it had been, said Sartre, "nothing but an ideology of lies, a perfect justification for pillage; its honeyed words, its affectation of sensibility were only alibis for our aggressions" (p. 21).
6. Certainly there is a Satanic touch to the tale of how the jealousy of a dismissed Duchy official was to lead to assault, pillage, false imprisonment and the eventual gruesome murder of the Lord of the Manor of Morval.
7. Ma Bell can hardly be described as a raider set on rape and pillage.
8. But the oft repeated Saxon prayer, "From the fury of the Norseman, Good Lord deliver us", must have been echoed along the Channel coast many times, where the wealthy minsters and settled farms stood open to repeated pillage.
9. As they rode, Thomas told Corbett more about the Picti, how they had once ruled Scotland, even launching raids across the great Roman wall to the south to pillage and plunder Rome's colonies.
10. Would that today we had outspoken men of the calibre of Wordsworth and Green to save the landscape from rape and pillage.
11. To the crime of pillage they added rape and the fruits of those violent couplings were the likes of Dinosaur Jr, Pixies and, yep, Nirvana.
12. Wide expanses of undefended countryside vulnerable to sudden attack for pillage or even conquest.
13. When Arthur Wellesley was in command of the British troops in Spain he refused to pay for their upkeep by pillage and plunder.