piller
French → English
verb//pi.je//
(crime) To loot: to violently take away the goods of a city or house; to plunder
Les troupes ont pillé le village durant la nuit du 2 octobre.
(English) The troops looted the village during the night of October 2nd.
Ils voulaient être là pour piller l'épave après la tempête.
(English) They wanted to be there to plunder the wreck after the storm.
verb//pi.je//
(creative) To plagiarize: to take ideas or parts from other works and claim them as one's own
Il a pillé dans de vieux auteurs la plupart de ses idées.
(English) He plundered most of his ideas from old authors.
Ces vers sont pillés dans les œuvres de Racine.
(English) These verses are plagiarized from the works of Racine.
Entry ID: fr:en:piller · Source: refined · Type: vocabulary