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Ransack meaning
To search (a place, through things, etc.) thoroughly, especially when vigorous and leaving behind a state of disarray. | To search (someone or a place) thoroughly in order to steal something, especially when vigorous and leaving behind a state of disarray; hence, to rob (someone or a place); to plunder. | To search for and steal (something) as plunder.
Example sentences (17)
Looters ransack retail stores in Philadelphia, 15-20 arrested: policefox29.
Orcs, Balrogs and even dragons were sent to ransack the city, resulting in it being completely flattened to the earth.
Sarah Rogers, Ransack Dance’s artistic director, said: “We are delighted to be bringing this exciting work to communities across Wales.
Scott Gallagher, of Sneinton Hermitage in Sneinton, pretended to be a customer browsing in stores in Nottinghamshire before breaking into their staff rooms to ransack the property of staff members.
Surveillance shows 69-year old mother Diane ducking for cover and screaming for help as those eight individuals smash nearly every single case and ransack the shop.
Trump left office in 2021 a pariah after inciting a mob of supporters to ransack the U.S. Capitol at the end of an attempt to overturn his electoral defeat.
Is it smarter to ransack the meat section or clean out the medicine aisle?
Today they ransack the 100 000 per day egg farm.
Video shows a police officer being dragged by vehicle after looters ransack a Philadelphia furniture store on October 27, 2020.
Motorcyclists crowded a while others got off their bikes to ransack the shop, footage of the “large scale public disorder” released by police shows.
A 65-year-old doctor was beaten, stabbed and bound to his bed, allegedly by four unidentified men who then proceeded to ransack his house in northwest Delhi’s Mukherjee Nagar Monday.
After spending all night sorting through my property, on June 14 around 8 a.m. I was able to speak with Mullins, who admittedly did the ransack job and inventory of my property along with Lt. Lambert.
Ransack people’s private lives and communications to more effectively demonize them.
Black militiamen under a white leader ransack the Cameron house; the Cameron women are rescued by Confederate soldiers who rout the militia.
But they were surprised in the rear by a second force of Dardani, which had approached their camp stealthily by mountain paths, and proceeded to storm and ransack it.
During Easter 1389, members of the Prague clergy announced that Jews had desecrated the host (Eucharistic wafer) and the clergy encouraged mobs to pillage, ransack and burn the Jewish quarter.
Uldin then proceeded to ransack Thrace.