(v. t.) To search thoroughly; to search every place or part of; as, to ransack a house.
(v. t.) To plunder; to pillage completely.
(v. t.) To violate; to ravish; to defiour.
(v. i.) To make a thorough search.
(n.) The act of ransacking, or state of being ransacked; pillage.
Example Sentences:
(1) Some have been threatened and assaulted, while others’ homes have been ransacked, their families living in constant fear.
(2) Gangs of armed men ransacked and burned homes of government supporters and residents from tribes sympathetic to the government.
(3) The attackers entered the buildings, ransacked each and set them on fire, but did not penetrate the safe rooms.
(4) They’ve just ransacked the house, it’s horrible, it’s terrible,” said Melissa Mill.
(5) While his political allegiances led to the ransacking of his office in 1965, following the coup d'etat the year before that brought the military to power under General Castelo Branco, Niemeyer remained a well known and popular figure among ordinary Brazilians, to whom he was always "Oscar", and evidently adored, although younger generations of Brazilian architects have inevitably felt hidden in his shadow.
(6) These were forerunners of today's "conscious hip-hop" (not for nothing is Gamble and Huff's catalogue among the most ransacked by rappers for samples).
(7) That all I could hear – BANG – and I thought, for fuck’s sake, I had a headache, Tel.” One of the men then clambered through the tiny hole to jemmy open 73 of the 550 safe deposit boxes, which they ransacked.
(8) He systematically ransacked Aboriginal burial grounds across at least two states.
(9) Earlier in the evening, a number of demonstrators attacked a branch of Starbucks, smashing its front windows and ransacking it before shattering the facade of a clothes shop.
(10) A Hague meeting with either Rouhani or Zarif could clear the way to restoring full diplomatic ties, which have not existed since the British embassy in Tehran was ransacked by a mob in November 2011.
(11) Residents of Kurhama village in eastern Kashmir said soldiers arrived trucks and entered dozens of homes, beat men and women, ransacked property and broke into shops.
(12) It attacked as “false” reports that offices in city hall had been ransacked by police as part of their search for documents.
(13) "Now that all the Muslim shops have been looted, ransacked and destroyed, prices have increased substantially."
(14) Hospitals were looted and non-governmental organisation offices ransacked as the insurgents declared Gao the capital of Azawad, or northern Mali .
(15) This would include delivery in schools and colleges, of course, but should embrace provision provided, for example, through study circles, which were organised by the TUC in the 1980s; the University of the Third Age and the opportunities that organisation has provided for retired people; and opportunities that have been provided for older people who have no qualifications to gain them through organisations like the Ransackers Association .
(16) The gang ransacked 73 boxes at Hatton Garden Safe Deposit after using a diamond-tipped drill to bore a hole into the vault wall over Easter weekend last year.
(17) A BBC correspondent in the city, Rana Jawad, tweeted: "In past 48 hrs many – if not majority – of apartments of Hay el Zohour compound on airport road have been ransacked acc to witnesses."
(18) The same article was successfully relied on by lawyers acting for Earl Daren Rodney, who was jailed for ransacking a hairdresser’s during the 2011 London riots.
(19) Four suspects wearing helmets and black clothing ransacked display cases inside the Jumeirah Carlton Tower hotel shortly after midnight and fled on two high-powered motorbikes.
(20) "They will ransack the village, but will probably be stopped at the city gates.
Rummage
Definition:
(n.) A place or room for the stowage of cargo in a ship; also, the act of stowing cargo; the pulling and moving about of packages incident to close stowage; -- formerly written romage.
(n.) A searching carefully by looking into every corner, and by turning things over.
(v. t.) To make room in, as a ship, for the cargo; to move about, as packages, ballast, so as to permit close stowage; to stow closely; to pack; -- formerly written roomage, and romage.
(v. t.) To search or examine thoroughly by looking into every corner, and turning over or removing goods or other things; to examine, as a book, carefully, turning over leaf after leaf.
(v. i.) To search a place narrowly.
Example Sentences:
(1) Blood gutters brightly against his green gown, yet the man doesn't shudder or stagger or sink but trudges towards them on those tree-trunk legs and rummages around, reaches at their feet and cops hold of his head and hoists it high, and strides to his steed, snatches the bridle, steps into the stirrup and swings into the saddle still gripping his head by a handful of hair.
(2) The song ended on an emotional warble, then Nicolas rummaged in a drawer and handed me a small circle of cloth.
(3) I was on my way to one of those exclusive parties when I saw Mom from the taxi window; she was on the sidewalk rummaging through the trash.
(4) Port Gaverne , a little cove near Port Isaac always described as "quaint", is a good place to watch seals (and occasional basking sharks, dolphins and porpoises), go fishing or rummage in rock pools.
(5) When he was at Heinemann in the 1980s, he was rummaging through unsolicited manuscripts and came across Roddy Doyle's The Commitments and the first chapter of Bill Bryson's The Lost Continent.
(6) I'd come into his flat and rummage around in his private mail.
(7) Rummage boxes, sensory gardens and music sessions are prominent examples of tools used in our programme to help residents recall thoughts and experiences of their lives prior to developing dementia.
(8) You’ve gone through the most physically demanding and painful hours of your life, then when you finally get to hold your baby, your sense of euphoria is knocked out of you and there are suddenly people quite literally rummaging inside your body.
(9) Umunna won over an audience of business leaders when he produced his late father’s IoD membership card, that he found after rummaging through a box kept by his mother.
(10) The Knowledge has rummaged furiously through its annals, but just can't beat that.
(11) We end our conversation with his party's rum assortment of allies in the European parliament , and another chance to rummage through more arcane rightwing parties that do their thing in Brussels: among them, Helsinki's own True Finns, and the United Poland party.
(12) Born the youngest of five children into a working-class family in Lambeth, south London, he had had his first brushes with the law as a teenager during the second world war, when he would rummage through bombed-out buildings and help himself to what he found.
(13) The story begins with his colonial childhood in Kenya and Nyasaland (now Malawi), and is full of dusty anecdotes of our young hero rummaging without a care in the great African outdoors.
(14) In the background, John Terry's camp succeeded in planting a series of stories and photos that portrayed him as a happy family man, taking his wife out to the theatre and showing her how to fish while the tabloids rummaged in Perroncel's family history – her parents' divorce, her father's suicide, her supposed lack of money as a child (implying a current obsession).
(15) For more classic knowledge, click here MORE VIOLENT TESTIMONIALS Last week , rummaging through the Knowledge archive, Wayne Ziants came across a question about trouble at testimonials and felt moved to remind us of the hi-jinks at Alan Cork's benefit match in Plough Lane on 16 May 1988.
(16) "We have entered a new world but, as the court today recognised, our old values still apply and limit the government's ability to rummage through the intimate details of our private lives," Shapiro said in a statement.
(17) I hastily write a response in the affirmative, then rummage through my desk for a sheet of stamps, grab my cap and coat, and drop the letter into the mailbox.
(18) I would go to the library, or get books at rummage sales.
(19) I rummage through my pockets for the 1.5 birr (5p) fare as passengers clamber on and off at regular intervals before we reach the Bole bridge bus terminal.
(20) Get your reporter to STOP rummaging thru belongings at #mH17 crash site.