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ransack
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The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Ransack \Ran"sack\, v. i. To make a thorough search. To ransack in the tas [heap] of bodies dead. --Chaucer.
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
verb COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS ■ NOUN home ▪ And while Mr Stevens's bride was keeping a round-the-clock at his hospital bedside, burglars ransacked their home . ▪ They blew up trains, ransacked upper-caste homes and carried out a series of kidnappings and ...
Usage examples of ransack.
I saw Partin in the restaurant, I knew Sparacino had sent him to make sure I was really meeting with you, to see what I was up to, just like he sent the so-called Jeb Price to ransack your office.
When the husband returned home, he found the place had been completely ransacked, leading police to wonder whether the primary motive had actually been burglary and the rape and murder a secondary crime of opportunity.
The bedroom was ransacked, with clothing, bank statements, and other personal effects scattered throughout.
Drawers would have been ransacked and something obvious would have been taken.
The three of them ransacked the room, but no small, round box with the Campion name scrawled on it in elegant pink script could be found.
It seemed as though this were a proof of his presence more tangible than all the ransacked shelves put together.
The regiment sent to arrest us surrounded the house, ransacked it from attic to cellar, found nothing, and went away.
Without taking the trouble to lean down and look, they ransacked under the beds with bayonet thrusts.
And I had ransacked it with some sort of army at my command, and now Entipy was my slave?
However, when she opened the door to her office she found that the space had been ransacked during the night.
How he found out Wiggin was the original Ender the Xenocide, but then his computer was ransacked and the files disappeared.
But the house had been generally ransacked, including the file cabinet that held the records for the Krewe of Minerva.
Sick of a surfeit of pleasures, the whining monarch, counselled by his soothsayers, ransacked his kingdom for the shirt of a happy subject.
Then Weekes is murdered and his house is ransacked and no papers are left in it.
Nevertheless the man who sent the gall is murdered and his house ransacked and his granddaughter vanished.