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   ransack

   /ˈransak/

   verb

   • 1. go through (a place) stealing things and causing damage: "burglars ransacked her home" Similar plunderpillagesteal fromraidroblootriflesackstripdenuderavagemaraudlay wastedevastateliterary:despoilarchaic:reaverare:depredatespoliate
   • ▪ search (a place or receptacle) thoroughly, especially in such a way as to cause harm: "man has ransacked the planet for fuel" Similar rummage throughhunt throughsearch (through)rake throughscourriflelook all roundgo throughcombscrabble around inpoke around inrummage around inhunt around inexploreturn inside outturn over

   Word Origin Middle English: from Old Norse rannsaka, from rann ‘house’ + a second element related to sœkja ‘seek’.

   Derivatives

   • 1. ransacker noun

   Scrabble Points: 13

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