Past tense of pillage
regular verb
The past tense of pillage is pillaged. The past participle is also pillaged.
Forms of pillage
| Base form (V1) | pillage /ˈpɪl.ɪd͡ʒ/ |
|---|---|
| Past tense (V2) | pillaged |
| Past participle (V3) | pillaged |
| Present participle | pillaging |
| Third person singular | pillages |
Pillaged in a sentence
- He had cooked the buying, he had cooked the selling, he had systematically pillaged the stock.1927, Ernest Bramah [pseudonym; Ernest Brammah Smith], Max Carrados Mysteries
- The Swedish soldiers had already pillaged and burnt all the villages around Mikulov, Mikulov alone resisted.1995, Eduard Petiška, translated by Norah Hronkovà, Tales of Castles in the Land of Moravia, Martin, page 45. From the entry Mikulov
- Save these bricks, "I found hardly anything, the inhabitants have pillaged everything long ago.1920, Rustichello da Pisa, translated by Henry Yule, edited by Henri Cordier, The Travels of Marco Polo, →OCLC. From the entry Tatrang
- The Mandilion had been preserved at Constantinople until it disappeared when the town was pillaged by the Latin Crusaders.1967, Titus Burckhardt; Lord Northbourne (Walter Earnest Christopher James), transl., Sacred Art in East and West: Its Principles and…. From the entry mandylion
- Each unique backcourt was an adventure playground with walls to be climbed, chasms to be leaped and dustbins to be raked through and pillaged.2011 January 8, Brian McHugh, The Guardian. From the entry backcourt
Meaning of pillage
- verb To loot or plunder by force, especially in time of war.
- noun The spoils of war.
- noun The act of pillaging.
Questions about the past tense of pillage
- What is the past tense of pillage?
- The past tense of pillage is pillaged.
- What is the past participle of pillage?
- The past participle of pillage is pillaged.
- Is pillage a regular or irregular verb?
- Pillage is a regular verb: its past tense adds -d.
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Adapted from Wiktionary: pillage (page history and authors) and the entries of its forms. Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws left out forms marked obsolete, archaic, rare or dialectal and added the examples. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.
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