ransacking
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7.3
- noun
- /ˈrænˌsækɪŋ/
:
saqueo
- It was in the wake of the bitter 2000 election, and the ransacking was totally unprecedented.
Similarly, the exploitation of nature has led to our ransacking the natural world that with fracking and climate breakdown and deforestation.
- Similarly, the exploitation of nature has led to our ransacking the natural world that with fracking and climate breakdown and deforestation.
- And there may be some ransacking going on in the House of enlightenment within the world within earth as well, but that's going to happen in the next section.
Examples
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The U.S. military's inaction allowed the ransacking of the museum, just as it failed to prevent the looting of hospitals, universities, libraries, and government social service buildings.
Academic text (2004) -
During the ransacking of the office, important documents were strewn across the floor, making it impossible to find anything.
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They're breaking windows and going in, obviously ransacking our offices and all the rest of that.
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Kenai looks around at the messy results of LeMalle's ransacking for things to wear.
Fiction book (1993) -
Perhaps the most devastating losses for the Iraqi people, and indeed for all peoples, resulted from the ransacking of the National Museum, the greatest trove of archaeological and historical artifacts in the Middle East.
Academic text (2004) -
Table 1, which shows the destruction of Indian homes and property throughout the campaign, should be viewed as incomplete on a number of fronts: it does not include the unrecorded number of homes likely destroyed in the burning and ransacking of towns.
Academic text (2018) -
After the party, the house was left in a state of complete ransacking, with furniture overturned and food scattered everywhere.
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The police arrived too late to prevent the ransacking of the jewelry store, which had been left in shambles.
Synonyms
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4.9
Stealing things from shops, often during a riot or disaster
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4.6
A messy search through things to find something
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4.6
A careful search of a place to find something lost
Taking things by force from a place, often during war
Antonyms
How Thorough
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Ransacking comes from an old Norse verb rannsaka, made of rann 'house' and saka 'to search'. It first meant 'to search a house' and often left things in a mess, which is why ransacking now means searching thoroughly and causing disorder.