verb · transitive · rare

ransack

ran·sack

ransack · ransacks · ransacked · ransacking

проникнути, проникати

проникнуть, проникать

plündern, durchwühlen

To search thoroughly, especially when vigorous and leaving behind a state of disarrayTo search (a place, through things, etc.) thoroughly, especially when vigorous and leaving behind a state of disarray.

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/ˈɹænsæk/

» Some kids broke into Tom's house and ransacked it.

Якісь хлопці вломилися до будинку Тома та пограбували його.

Meaning

9 senses

(transitive)To search (a place, through things, etc.) thoroughly, especially when vigorous and leaving behind a state of disarray.
search thoroughly
(transitive)To search (someone or a place) thoroughly in order to steal something, especially when vigorous and leaving behind a state of disarray; hence, to rob (someone or a place); to plunder.
to ransack a house for valuables
plündern
(transitive)To search for and steal (something) as plunder.
steal goods; take as spoils
(intransitive)To search thoroughly, especially when leaving behind a state of disarray.
(archaic, figuratively, transitive)To examine (someone or something) carefully; to investigate; also, to question (someone) thoroughly; to interrogate.
(obsolete, transitive)To look for or seek out (someone).
(obsolete, transitive)To search (someone) for a thing.
(figuratively, obsolete, transitive)Synonym of penetrate (“to make way into the interior of (something); to pierce”); also, synonym of pervade (“to enter and spread through (something); to permeate”).
(archaic, intransitive)To search for and steal things.

Examples

23 sentences

Some kids broke into Tom's house and ransacked it.
Якісь хлопці вломилися до будинку Тома та пограбували його.
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They ransacked our bedroom.
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Someone has ransacked the place.
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Somebody has ransacked my room.
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Tom's office has been ransacked.
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Translations

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By meaning 2

1.1. (transitive) to search thoroughly:

1.2. (transitive) to search in order to steal:

Origin

The verb is derived from Middle English ransaken (“to examine, investigate; to rob, plunde

The verb is derived from Middle English ransaken (“to examine, investigate; to rob, plunder, steal; to search, seek; to treat roughly, mistreat”), from Old Norse rannsaka (“to search a house (especially for stolen goods)”), from rann (“house”) (from Proto-Germanic *razną (“dwelling, house”), from Proto-Indo-European *h₁reh₁- (“to rest; quiet”)) + saka, an ablaut variant of sœkja, sǿkja (“to look for, search, seek”) (from Proto-Germanic *sōkijaną (“to look for, seek”), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *seh₂g- (“to follow; to seek out, trace”)).

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