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Found 2 hits - Term: ransacked, Database: *, Strategy: exact
[1] : The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
ransack \ran"sack\ ra^n"sa^k, v. t. imp.  p. p.
   ransacked -sa^kt; p. pr.  vb. n. ransacking. oe.
   ransaken, icel. rannsaka to explore, examine; rann a house
   akin to goth. razn house, as. raesn plank, beam + the
   root of saekja 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.
      1913 webster

            to ransack every corner of their . . . hearts.
                                                  --south.
      1913 webster

   2. to plunder; to pillage completely.
      1913 webster

            their vow is made
            to ransack troy.                      --shak.
      1913 webster

   3. to violate; to ravish; to defiour. obs.
      1913 webster

            rich spoil of ransacked chastity.     --spenser.
      1913 webster
see also:
ransacked ransacking seek rest 
[2] : WordNet (r) 2.0
ransacked
     adj : wrongfully emptied or stripped of anything of value; "the
           robbers left the looted train"; "people returned to the
           plundered village" syn: looted, pillaged, plundered
see also:
looted pillaged plundered 

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