Synonyms:
despoiled, pillaged, raped, ravaged, sacked
Meaning: having been robbed and destroyed by force and violence; "the raped countryside"
Synonyms:
looted, pillaged, plundered, ransacked
Meaning: wrongfully emptied or stripped of anything of value; "the robbers left the looted train"; "people returned to the plundered village"
Usage examples
How The City Jerusalem Was Taken, And The Temple Pillaged [By Antiochus Epiphanes].
They then completely pillaged the ship, removing almost everything of any use or value.
After the vessel had been pillaged, the rigging and sails destroyed, the men were all securely bound and left to their fate.
Nor did they spare the churches and most sacred things; all of which were pillaged and profaned, without any respect or veneration.
'The Saxons,' reported Duke William's outposts of Norman soldiers, who were instructed to retire as King Harold's army advanced, 'rush on us through their pillaged country with the fury of madmen.'
In the harbour of Valparaiso he captured a vessel richly laden with the wines of Chili, and with ingots of gold valued at 37,000 ducats; afterwards he pillaged the town, which had been precipitately abandoned by its inhabitants.
Ulysses answered, "Then you must have been a very little fellow, Eumaeus, when you were taken so far away from your home and parents. Tell me, and tell me true, was the city in which your father and mother lived sacked and pillaged, or did some enemies carry you off when you were alone tending sheep or cattle, ship you off here, and sell you for whatever your master gave them?"