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What is the difference between pillage and loot and plunder and raid ?Feel free to just provide example sentences.
What is the difference between pillage and loot and plunder and raid ?Feel free to just provide example sentences.
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Genghis Khan pillaged many villages on his way through Asia and Europe.
He looted many of the villagers' possessions.
He even plundered the treasuries of larger towns and cities.
He raided all cities mercilessly.
Loot and plunder refer to the stealing of things, plunder is specific to times of war/conflict etc.
Pillage is always bloody and violent, raid is any invasion, such as a police raid.
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Genghis Khan pillaged many villages on his way through Asia and Europe.
He looted many of the villagers' possessions.
He even plundered the treasuries of larger towns and cities.
He raided all cities mercilessly.
Loot and plunder refer to the stealing of things, plunder is specific to times of war/conflict etc.
Pillage is always bloody and violent, raid is any invasion, such as a police raid.
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