ransack

[US]/'rænsæk/
[UK]/'rænsæk/
Frequency: Very High

Translation

vt. to loot, to plunder; to search thoroughly

Example Sentences

Rioters ransacked the shops.

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I ransacked the house looking for my purse.

burglars ransacked her home.

man has ransacked the planet for fuel.

the vermin who ransacked her house.

The house had been ransacked of all that was worth anything.

He began to ransack his mother's workbox for a piece of thread.

robbers tied her up and ransacked her home.

He ransacked his extensive vocabulary in order to find opprobrious names to call her.

He devoured all the books at home, from Inchbald's Theatre to White's Farriery; he ransacked the neighbouring bookcases.

Real-world Examples

To give them a chance to ransack my place.

Source: Casablanca Original Soundtrack

The tents of Lebanese protesters in Beirut have been ransacked and destroyed.

Source: BBC Listening Collection November 2019

This is all after a mob in Tehran ransacked the Saudi embassy.

Source: NPR News January 2016 Compilation

This place has to look like it was ransacked by robbers, not someone's personal shopper.

Source: Desperate Housewives (Audio Version) Season 5

These revamps are not the only way Disney is ransacking its canon.

Source: The Economist - Arts

We turned a blind eye while other nations targeted our industries and ransacked our factories.

Source: Trump's weekly television address

The protesters ransacked parts of Iraq's parliament building before Iraqi security forces regained control.

Source: CNN Selected May 2016 Collection

It ransacked internal organs before traveling through the blood to the skin, where it erupted in pus-filled lesions.

Source: The Atlantic Monthly (Article Edition)

Then a police inspector arrived with a constable and she told them of her discovery of the ransacked flat.

Source: New Concept English. British Edition. Book Three (Translation)

Britain will reopen its embassy in the Iranian capital Tehran this weekend, 4 years it was ransacked by protesters.

Source: BBC Listening Collection August 2015

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