Ransack
['rænsæk]
Definition
(v. t.) To search thoroughly; to search every place or part of; as, to ransack a house.
(v. t.) To plunder; to pillage completely.
(v. t.) To violate; to ravish; to defiour.
(v. i.) To make a thorough search.
(n.) The act of ransacking, or state of being ransacked; pillage.
Checked by Llewellyn
Synonyms and Synonymous
v. a. [1]. Plunder, pillage, sack.[2]. Explore, rummage, search thoroughly.
Checker: Tessie
Synonyms and Antonyms
SYN:Rummage, rifle, explore, pillage, ravage, overhaul
ANT:skim, survey, reconnoitre
Editor: Rochelle
Definition
v.t. to search thoroughly: to plunder: to pillage.—n. eager search.—n. Ran′sacker.
Typist: Miguel
Examples
- He began to ransack his tutor's desk for a piece of wax or twine necessary to his work. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
- I had to ransack my memory for some more similes. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
- Twice burglars in my pay ransacked her house. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes.
- In the interest s of his art the medical practitioner ransacked the resources of organic and inorganic nature. Walter Libby. An Introduction to the History of Science.
- I have been to her mother, I have ransacked the village--and all to no purpose. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
- We have seen the mineral and vegetable kingdoms rifled and ransacked for substances that would yield the best filament. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- Slipping in at the door he found that everything had been ransacked. Edgar Rice Burroughs. Tarzan of the Apes.
- Carefully they ransacked every hut and corner of the village, but no sign of D'Arnot could they find. Edgar Rice Burroughs. Tarzan of the Apes.
- The world was ransacked for anything that might be claimed as an anticipation of what he had done. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- She had the ransacking of the wardrobes of the two defunct ladies, and cut and hacked their posthumous finery so as to suit her own tastes and figure. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
- What are you two about, she continued, ransacking Mr. Moore's desk? Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
Edited by Estelle