English-Portuguese translation for "to pillage"
"to pillage" Portuguese translation
to pillage {verb}
to pillage [pillaged|pillaged] {vb} (also: to ravage, to rifle, to forray, to loot)
Synonyms
Synonyms (English) for "pillage":
© Princeton Universityplunder · despoil · loot · reave · strip · rifle · ransack · foray · plundering · pillaging · booty · prize · swag · dirty money
Usage examples
Usage examples for "to pillage" in Portuguese
He agrees to hold meetings, but without an international mediator, and at the same time - just as he did in Bosnia - he is sanctioning murder and pillaging.
At this point, I would like to mention the growing poverty, the pillaging of natural resources and the attempts to curtail and sell off national industries.
By accepting that those waters are included, the European Union is regrettably helping to perpetuate the pillaging that we have condemned so many times in this House.
Today, Morocco is faced with factory ships which are coming to pillage its natural resources, and which the small vessels and small Moroccan industries are in no position to resist.
The fourth area of incoherence in the European Union's cooperation policy is this: how do you expect to help development by pillaging the natural resources of the people you are helping.
This is because it has been constantly pillaged and because France, its former colonial ruler, has never forgiven the country for winning independence by armed struggle and a slave revolt.
The longer the murdering and pillaging and the ethnic cleansing goes on among the Albanians, the stronger the support of the KLA will become, and the more the support of Rugova will decline.
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