Found 3 items, similar to ransack.
English → Indonesian (quick)
Definition: ransack
merampok
English → English (WordNet)
Definition: ransack
ransack
v 1: steal goods; take as spoils;
“During the earthquake people
looted the stores that were deserted by their owners”
[syn:
plunder,
despoil,
loot,
reave,
strip,
rifle,
pillage,
foray]
2: search thoroughly;
“They combed the area for the missing
child” [syn:
comb]
English → English (gcide)
Definition: Ransack
Ransack
\Ran"sack\, v. i.
To make a thorough search.
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To ransack in the tas [heap] of bodies dead. --Chaucer.
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Ransack
\Ran"sack\ (r[a^]n"s[a^]k), v. t. [imp. & p. p.
Ransacked (-s[a^]kt); p. pr. & vb. n.
Ransacking.] [OE.
ransaken, Icel. rannsaka to explore, examine; rann a house
(akin to Goth. razn house, AS. r[ae]sn plank, beam) + the
root of s[ae]kja to seek, akin to E. seek. See
Seek, and
cf.
Rest repose.]
1. To search thoroughly; to search every place or part of;
as, to ransack a house.
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To ransack every corner of their . . . hearts.
--South.
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2. To plunder; to pillage completely.
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Their vow is made
To ransack Troy. --Shak.
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3. To violate; to ravish; to defiour. [Obs.]
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Rich spoil of ransacked chastity. --Spenser.
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Ransack
\Ran"sack\, n.
The act of ransacking, or state of being ransacked; pillage.
[R.]
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Even your father's house
Shall not be free from ransack. --J. Webster.
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