Ransack

Word RANSACK
Character 7
Hyphenation ran sack
Pronunciations /ˈɹænsæk/

Definitions and meanings of "Ransack"

What do we mean by ransack?

To search through (something) thoroughly and often roughly. transitive verb

To go through (a place) stealing valuables and causing disarray; pillage. transitive verb

Detailed search or inquisition; careful investigation. noun

A ransacking; search for plunder; pillage; sack. noun

To search thoroughly; seek carefully in all parts of; explore, point by point, for what is desired; overhaul in detail.

To sack; pillage completely; strip by plundering.

To obtain by ransacking or pillage; seize upon; carry off; ravish.

To violate; deflower: as, “ransackt chastity,”

To make penetrating search or inquisition; pry; rummage.

The act of ransacking, or state of being ransacked; pillage. noun

To search thoroughly; to search every place or part of. transitive verb

To plunder; to pillage completely. transitive verb

To violate; to ravish; to defiour. transitive verb

To make a thorough search. intransitive verb

To loot or pillage. See also sack. verb

To make a vigorous and thorough search of (a place, person) with a view to stealing something, especially when leaving behind a state of disarray. verb

To examine carefully; to investigate. verb

Steal goods; take as spoils verb

Search thoroughly verb

Eager search.

To ballwalk very fast Urban Dictionary

To take a girls' virginity Urban Dictionary

New slang for sexin. Urban Dictionary

A game that you have a sack and you run up behind someone else and pull the sack over them then start draging them along. Urban Dictionary

To T-bag someone in their face instead of in the back of their head. Making it more humiliating, yet more painful for the ransacker. Urban Dictionary

A game where the last person doing "The Sign Of Ransack"in fact, GETS Ransacked. Urban Dictionary

Another way of saying backpack/rucksack Urban Dictionary

Derogatory term for beligerent males of indeterminable sexual origin, implying aggressiveness in the homosexual act without necessarily seeking consent. Most rectum ransackers are found in all male communities, e.g. Prison, Public School, etc. Urban Dictionary

Synonyms and Antonyms for Ransack

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The word "ransack" in example sentences

It is true, Hawley said, that TSA agents open the luggage of all selectees (the word "ransack" seems another case of the clerk editorializing). ❋ James Taranto (2007)

I-9 audit, asking for records instead of what he described as a "ransack" of the business, which started at 8: 30 a.m. ❋ Unknown (2010)

Though I was pleased they chose a traditional gentlemen's outfitter to ransack. ❋ Unknown (2011)

I said “back in the days of the stress tests,” that particular epoch, a time when the banks were tied and gagged and on their knees, and we, the American people, had an opportunity to ransack THEIR house. ❋ Unknown (2010)

It is famously one of the most troubling poems in the Psalter, giving conniptions to theologians, who ransack the life of David for an enemy vile enough to deserve a song so hard to hear as God's inspired word. ❋ David Van Biema (2012)

The rioters were allowed to do what should not have been allowed -- to ransack the Embassy -- but at the crucial moment, Egyptian commandos showed up and prevented a disaster. ❋ Dr. Josef Olmert (2011)

I guess he's too busy sending the FBI to ransack the homes and offices of peace and human rights activists. ❋ Joseph A. Palermo (2010)

Throw petrol over a policeman, shout for people to be killed, ransack shops, launch everything you can lift at the police = no problem. on January 12, 2009 at 6: 49 pm | Reply Jack Straw ❋ Inspector Gadget (2009)

To leap ahead, Andersen goes on to argue that all this toing and froing -- all this boring sameness -- stems from the democratization of distribution caused by the information revolution, which allows everyone you, me, Pottery Barn to ransack the past for previously inaccessible style and consume it like a fast-food cheeseburger, a sighing decline into nostalgia and cultural obesity. ❋ Robert Teitelman (2011)

And so, he would indeed ransack each and every cash register, rifle the safe, leave a signed confession that he intended on handing all the cash over to private charities, the homeless, and needy passers-by—and then fake suicide in such a way that his poor body could never be recovered. ❋ Strannikov (2012)

I'm pretty sure this would impact this problem in a good way, cause if I was trying to ransack a 200 'tanker and I saw armed men keeping watch, I'll go elsewhere in my fishing boat and look for easier prey. ❋ Unknown (2009)

There will be a ransack of Egypt, just like a militia rampage. ❋ Unknown (2011)

They ransack everything from 1960s handclaps to 1950s-style twangs. ❋ Unknown (2012)

Patrician vicissitudes run ransack with benign alignments of the brain. ❋ Bill Yarrow (2011)

But things get strange when one of his professors turns up to ransack his apartment and question him about a reproduction of an alien artifact known as the Star Stone. ❋ Unknown (2009)

After I ransacked [the local] [grocery store], the managers called [the police]. ❋ Djslut (2005)

I ransacked that [tight] [high school] [chick] after my party ❋ Tim-tim (2004)

I'll [come up] there and [we can] ransack something [together]" ❋ Ray (2005)

i [totally] just ransacked [Billy] in [the hall] way. ❋ Bryce Smith (2010)

Hahaha! [Evan's] nuts must be [hurting] from that [ransack]! ❋ Av3DJ (2010)

" [I'm going to] Ransack you! " ❋ Fcukface; (2009)

Wtf do you [carry] in your [ransack]...[rocks]? ❋ GodssBoss (2019)

[Joe's] doing [6 months] in [Barlinnie].....Imagine the rectum ransackers that'll be firin' it up his ass on a regular basis? ❋ Erchie McGeakle (2006)

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