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Meaning of Ransacked in English

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Ransacked

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Adjective

1. looted, pillaged, plundered, ransacked

wrongfully emptied or stripped of anything of value

Example Sentences:
'the robbers left the looted train'
'people returned to the plundered village'

WordNet Lexical Database for English. Princeton University. 2010.


Ransacked

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verb (transitive)
1. 
to search through every part of (a house, box, etc); examine thoroughly
2. 
to plunder; pillage

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Ransacked

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verb transitive
1. 
to search thoroughly; examine every part of in searching
2. 
to search through for plunder; pillage; rob

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Ransacked

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tr.v. ran·sacked, ran·sack·ing, ran·sacks
1. To search through (something) thoroughly and often roughly: ransacked the drawer looking for my keys.
2. To go through (a place) stealing valuables and causing disarray; pillage: ransacked the village.

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