Pillage and Search

Pillage

Pillage verb - To search through with the intent of committing robbery.

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Search and pillage are semantically related. In some cases you can use "Search" instead a verb "Pillage".

Nearby Words: pillaged, pillager, pillaging

Search verb - To look through (as a place) carefully or thoroughly in an effort to find or discover something.

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Pillage and search are semantically related. Sometimes you can use "Pillage" instead a verb "Search".

area	pillage area	search area
house	pillage house	search house
time	pillage time	search time
room	pillage room	search room
Other words: office, coast, town, city, times, ships, cities.

By the end, the Japanese don't even bother get "search warrants" to go in there for rape and pillage.

Source: Film / City of Life and Death
Pirates in Love takes place aboard a pirate ship whose crew engages in no actual piracy; the crew of the Sirius are more like seafaring treasure hunters who prefer to search for long-lost hidden valuables rather than pillage those already owned by someone else.

Source: The Pirates Who Don't Do Anything

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