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Ransacking   /rˈænsˌækɪŋ/   Listen
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Ransack  v. t.  (past & past part. ransacked; pres. part. ransacking)  
1.
To search thoroughly; to search every place or part of; as, to ransack a house. "To ransack every corner of their... hearts."
2.
To plunder; to pillage completely. "Their vow is made To ransack Troy."
3.
To violate; to ravish; to defiour. (Obs.) "Rich spoil of ransacked chastity."


Ransack  v. i.  To make a thorough search. "To ransack in the tas (heap) of bodies dead."





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"Ransacking" Quotes from Famous Books



... for some seconds in great surprise. When I had arrived in the afternoon the house had been plainly deserted; now it was as plainly occupied. It was my first idea that a gang of thieves might have broken in and be now ransacking Northmour's cupboards, which were many and not ill supplied. But what should bring thieves to Graden Easter? And, again, all the shutters had been thrown open, and it would have been more in the ...
— New Arabian Nights • Robert Louis Stevenson
... and Radisson was in possession. At midnight the watch-dogs raised an alarm, and the French sallied out to find that a New Englander had run to the Hudson's Bay Company for aid, and Governor Bridgar's men were attacking the ships. All of the assailants fled but four, whom Radisson caught ransacking the ship's cabin. Radisson now had more captives than he could guard, so he loaded the Hudson's Bay Company men with provisions and sent them back ...
— Pathfinders of the West • A. C. Laut
... proceedings of ayuntamientos and early departmental juntas, with other records of a primitive and superstitious people, have been my inadequate authorities. It is but just to state, however, that though this particular story lacks corroboration, in ransacking the Spanish archives of Upper California I have met with many more surprising and incredible stories, attested and supported to a degree that would have placed this legend beyond a cavil or doubt. I have, also, never lost faith in the legend myself, ...
— The Luck of Roaring Camp and Other Tales • Bret Harte
... searched the rooms, ransacking drawers and chests. They took everything of value they could find, including the shotgun and ...
— The Man in Gray • Thomas Dixon
... alchemy, their medical tendencies led them simultaneously to cultivate another ancient delusion, the discovery of a universal panacea or elixir which could cure all diseases and prolong life for ever. Mystical experimenters for centuries had been ransacking all nature, from the yellow flowers which are sacred to the sun, and gold his emblem and representative on earth, down to the vilest excrements of the human body. As to gold, there had been gathered round that metal many fictitious excellences in addition to its real ...
— History of the Intellectual Development of Europe, Volume I (of 2) - Revised Edition • John William Draper


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