Definitions
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- verb Simple past tense and past participle of
ransack .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective wrongfully emptied or stripped of anything of value
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Examples
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We sat with villagers, in ransacked homes, whose family members had been burnt to death.
Kathy Kelly: From Bamiyan to Gaza: You're Not Alone Kathy Kelly 2010
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We sat with villagers, in ransacked homes, whose family members had been burnt to death.
Kathy Kelly: From Bamiyan to Gaza: You're Not Alone Kathy Kelly 2010
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"When all the major rice warehouses have been ransacked, that is a concern."
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Nasr said a large butcher knife was missing from a butcher's block in King's kitchen, and the bedroom looked as though it had been "ransacked," with dresser drawers left open and items scattered about.
Man accused of fatally stabbing victim, using his credit card, held in D.C. jail Keith L. Alexander 2010
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Nasr said a large butcher knife was missing from a butcher's block in King's kitchen, and the bedroom looked as though it had been "ransacked," with dresser drawers left open and items scattered about.
Man accused of fatally stabbing victim, using his credit card, held in D.C. jail Keith L. Alexander 2010
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Nasr said a large butcher knife was missing from a butcher's block in King's kitchen, and the bedroom looked as though it had been "ransacked," with dresser drawers left open and items scattered about.
Man accused of fatally stabbing victim, using his credit card, held in D.C. jail Keith L. Alexander 2010
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According to TMZ, the agents "ransacked" the former
EURweb 2010
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Nutt, 35, in a stolen truck whose interior had been "ransacked" and the ignition punched out, according to charging documents.
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Collier and friend Mitch Miller, who maintains Collier's voluminous paperwork, said Uzdanovics "ransacked" Collier's house for more than six hours and did not properly itemize seized items.
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He said the teenagers had made a "tidy search" of the house which had not been "ransacked" or "soiled".
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