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ransack

[ran-sak]

verb (used with object)

  1. to search thoroughly or vigorously through (a house, receptacle, etc.).

    They ransacked the house for the missing letter.

  2. to search through for plunder; pillage.

    The enemy ransacked the entire town.



ransack

/ ˈæԲæ /

verb

  1. to search through every part of (a house, box, etc); examine thoroughly

  2. to plunder; pillage

“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012
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Other Word Forms

  • ransacker noun
  • unransacked adjective
  • ˈԲ noun
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Word History and Origins

Origin of ransack1

First recorded in 1200–50; Middle English ransaken, from Old Norse rannsaka “to search, examine (for evidence of crime),” equivalent to rann “house” + saka, variant of հᲹ “to search;” seek )
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Word History and Origins

Origin of ransack1

C13: from Old Norse rann house + saka to search, seek
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Trump pardoned the hooligans who ransacked the Capitol because he lost the 2020 presidential election.

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Boniface Mwangi, one of the activists who had visited Ms Njeri in custody, said she told them that police had ransacked her house and taken her phone, laptop and hard drives.

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A security camera video circulated on social media shows people wearing hoodies and masks smashing through the window, ransacking the store and stuffing merchandise into bags.

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Duarte said he could see through a glass door in the back of his home that the kitchen had been ransacked.

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The word “rabid” may be a stretch, but let’s just say they expressed themselves with little or no inhibition, much like the crew that invaded and ransacked the U.S.

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