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Ransack   /rˈænsˌæk/   Listen
verb
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."


noun
Ransack  n.  The act of ransacking, or state of being ransacked; pillage. (R.) "Even your father's house Shall not be free from ransack."





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"Ransack" Quotes from Famous Books



... Else religion would be to every one just what it should be, the most valuable and reliable friend of men. He explained the gospel of the day without fanaticism, yet with a grand simplicity which needed not to ransack the world for its wisdom, its figures of speech, or its scholastic arts. It was no religious study, hurled in its three divisions at the heart of stony sinners; nor was it what some would call a current article of pulpit manufacture. It was no cold, ...
— History of Rationalism Embracing a Survey of the Present State of Protestant Theology • John F. Hurst
... overacting, and I promise you success! Once the girl within, and the door closed, the same dexterity that has already rid you of the dealer will relieve you of this last danger in your path. Thenceforward you have the whole evening—the whole night, if needful—to ransack the treasures of the house and to make good your safety. This is help that comes to you with the mask of danger. Up!" he cried: "up, friend; your life hangs trembling in the ...
— Short-Stories • Various
... knew him at the Siege of Pampelona, he was then a Colonel of French Horse, who when the Town was ransack'd, nobly treated my Brother and my self, preserving us from all Insolencies; and I must own, (besides great Obligations) I have I know not what, that pleads kindly for him about my Heart, and will suffer no other to enter— But ...
— The Works of Aphra Behn, Vol. I (of 6) • Aphra Behn
... not take much—only half-a-dozen articles of plate off the sideboard. Lady Brackenstall thinks that they were themselves so disturbed by the death of Sir Eustace that they did not ransack the house as ...
— The Return of Sherlock Holmes - Magazine Edition • Arthur Conan Doyle
... drawn in the First Book, that the Poet adds nothing to it in the Second. We were before told, that he was the first who taught Mankind to ransack the Earth for Gold and Silver, and that he was the Architect of Pandaemonium, or the Infernal Place, where the Evil Spirits were to meet in Council. His Speech in this Book is every way suitable to so depraved a ...
— The Spectator, Volume 2. • Addison and Steele


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