Difference between Pillage and Despoil

PILLAGE vs DESPOIL: NOUN

Goods or money obtained illegally
The act of pillaging.
Something pillaged; spoils.
The act of plundering.
The act of stealing valuable things from a place
The spoils of war.
Plunder; spoil; that which is taken from another by open force, particularly and chiefly from enemies in war.
That which is taken from another or others by open force, particularly and chiefly from enemies in war; plunder; spoil; booty.
The act of pillaging; robbery.
Synonyms Pillage, Plunder, Booty, Spoil, Prey. These words denote that which is violently got or carried off; all except prey suggest a considerable amount seized. Pillage also denotes the act; the others only the thing or things taken. Pillage and spoil especially suggest the great loss to the owners, completely stripping or despoiling them of their property; plunder suggests the quantity and value of that which is taken: as, loaded with plunder; booty is primarily the spoils of war, but also of a raid or combined action, as of pirates, brigands, or burglars; spoil is the only one of these words that is used in the plural, except, rarely, prey. Prey now seems figurative or archaic when not applied to the objects of pursuit by animals: as, the mouse falls a ready prey to both beasts and birds; hence, when applied to that which is pursued or taken by man, it expresses condemnation of the act.

Steal goods; take as spoils
Destroy and strip of its possession
To strip (someone) of their clothes; to undress.
To violently strip (someone), with indirect object of their possessions etc.; to rob.
To deprive for spoil; to take spoil from; to plunder; to rob; to pillage.

To deprive of something valuable, especially by force; rob.
To ruin, especially by destroying or removing what is valuable.
To strip, as of clothing; to divest or unclothe.
To deprive for spoil; to plunder; to rob; to pillage; to strip; to divest; -- usually followed by of.

To spoliate; take spoil from; strip of possessions; pillage: as, the army despoiled the enemy's country.
To deprive by spoliation; strip by force; plunder; bereave: with of: as, to despoil one of his goods or of honors.
To strip; divest; undress: used absolutely or with of.
Take as spoils
Steal goods

Usurpation, Rapine, Looting, Rifle, Prize, Reave, Foray, Strip, Swag, Booty, Ransack, Despoil, Loot, Plundering, Plunder

Denude, Befoul, Pollute, Defile, Desecrate, Rifle, Reave, Foray, Rape, Strip, Violate, Ransack, Loot, Plunder, Pillage

Robbery, Theft, Snatching, Raiding, Steal, Exploitation, Usurpation, Rapine, Rifle, Prize, Strip, Booty, Despoil, Loot, Plundering

Ravish, Enslave, Deface, Subjugate, Destroy, Denude, Befoul, Pollute, Defile, Desecrate, Rifle, Strip, Violate, Loot, Pillage

We must pillage the forests for infected monkeys as well.
So, if you pillage or plunder, get a receipt.
Harvests had to be stored and protected from pillage.
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SYN: Devastation, desolation, waste, pillage, plunder, sack, ruin, spoil.
When do rape and pillage come into it?
It is legitimate to pillage from other parties.
Why do our soldiers pillage, burn and kill?
You shall pillage the accumulated wealth of Babylon.
Paradise in which their choice was between massacre or pillage by Mahrattas, and pillage or massacre by Afghans.

They kill and despoil and exile anyone whom they please.
The sole difference was that the privateer had a license to capture and despoil ships, while the pirate did not.
It was only right, then, that there should be a fierce conqueror, over whom he had no power, to come and despoil him.
Yet this man, polluted by such scandals, was decorated with the authority of regal power, and set our army to despoil us.
Thy voice, and suddenly grow gray with fear, And tremble and despoil themselves: oh hear!
It snarls in their ear to indulge, to manipulate, to despoil.
Khedive had sent the Mudir to Fazougli merely that he might despoil him.
Federal common law provides sanctions against parties in civil litigation who despoil evidence.
SYN: Wring, despoil, fleece, exact, express, squeeze_out, wrench, wrest, extract.
Richard I to despoil him of his possessions.