pillager

Other forms: pillagers

Definitions of pillager
  1. noun
    someone who takes spoils or plunder (as in war)
    synonyms: despoiler, freebooter, looter, plunderer, raider, spoiler
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    types:
    buccaneer, pirate, sea robber, sea rover
    someone who robs at sea or plunders the land from the sea without having a commission from any sovereign nation
    Barbary pirate, corsair
    a pirate along the Barbary Coast
    sea king
    a Viking pirate chief
    type of:
    stealer, thief
    a criminal who takes property belonging to someone else with the intention of keeping it or selling it
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