Verb (used with object) : They ransacked the house for the missing letter. ,The enemy ransacked the entire town. From Dictionary.com.
New York Post that the ransacking was a "huge, huge publicity stunt" -- and that someone was trying to "frame" Hailey for their dirty work. From Wordnik.com. [ShowHype - Top Entertainment News, Videos, and Blogs] Reference
Another soldier, recalling ransacking Palestinian homes, said: "The entire contents of the house flew out the windows: refrigerator, plates, furniture.". From Wordnik.com. Reference
2: to steal and carry away intransitive senses: to engage in ransacking and stealing. From Wordnik.com. [mail delivery] Reference
I do believe you have been ransacking its contents!. From Wordnik.com. [The Romance of Mathematics Being the Original Researches of a Lady Professor of Girtham College in Polemical Science, with some Account of the Social Properties of a Conic; Equations to Brain Waves; Social Forces; and the Laws of Political Motion.] Reference
This, however, did not prevent them from ransacking the. From Wordnik.com. [The History of the American Expedition Fighting the Bolsheviki Campaigning in North Russia 1918-1919] Reference
They broke into your house, and I found them ransacking it. From Wordnik.com. [Ralph on the Engine The Young Fireman of the Limited Mail] Reference
Ushers had flown from loggia to loggia, ransacking the Theatre. From Wordnik.com. [The Black Cross] Reference
A great writer does not begin by ransacking for the odd and new. From Wordnik.com. [The Continental Monthly, Vol. 2, No 3, September, 1862 Devoted to Literature and National Policy.] Reference
She felt hardly equal to the task of ransacking desks and drawers. From Wordnik.com. [The Apartment Next Door] Reference
Looters ransacking a compound used by Palestinian President Abbas. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Jun 15, 2007] Reference
Rioters ransacking parts of the United States Embassy in Belgrade. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Feb 21, 2008] Reference
Looters ransacking stores in a city that is cut off from nearly everywhere else. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Aug 31, 2005] Reference
We don't do a show where we say, hey, I want to apologize to you for ransacking you. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Feb 10, 2003] Reference
Instead, I sat quietly, my hands folded, and watched the spies ransacking our clothes. From Wordnik.com. [Trapped in 'Black Russia' Letters June-November 1915] Reference
While some of the soldiers were ill-treating her others were ransacking her wardrobes. From Wordnik.com. [The New York Times Current History, A Monthly Magazine The European War, March 1915] Reference
The one who was ransacking my room was making his exit, carrying something in his hand. From Wordnik.com. [Joel Brokaw: Monkeys of India: Look but Please Don't Touch] Reference
Hamas gunmen then took over these facilities, in some places ransacking them completely. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Jun 14, 2007] Reference
These are the faint sketches, which, on ransacking my brain, I find resting on its tablets. From Wordnik.com. [Captain Canot or, Twenty Years of an African Slaver] Reference
Evidently Taddy had been interrupted, in the midst of his ransacking, by the alarm of fire. From Wordnik.com. [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 16, No. 96, October 1865] Reference
The murderers were ransacking the house when Betty and the child were escaping through the byre. From Wordnik.com. [John Splendid The Tale of a Poor Gentleman, and the Little Wars of Lorn] Reference
Surveillance video shows them ramming a car into a Florida Costco-store and ransacking a jewelry counter. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Aug 19, 2006] Reference
Could it be that burglars had entered the house during the merrymaking and were even now ransacking the rooms?. From Wordnik.com. [The Lilac Lady] Reference
And now the Confederate forces were ransacking the South in search of horses, of which they were sorely in need. From Wordnik.com. [Ten American Girls From History] Reference
She saw men carrying boxes and bundles of cloth out the front door and realized that they were ransacking the place. From Wordnik.com. [The Saracen: The Holy War] Reference
Palestinians in Gaza went on a rampage of looting, ransacking buildings once used by the president's security forces. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Jun 15, 2007] Reference
Surveillance video shows them ramming a car into a Florida Costco-store, right there, and then ransacking a jewelry counter. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Aug 19, 2006] Reference
In ransacking the city for my ornaments I had observed the castle-park, with its clumps of verdure and almost deserted walks. From Wordnik.com. [Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, Vol. 12, No. 32, November, 1873] Reference
Over I went, wondering what was up, and ransacking my noodle for some breach of discipline of which I might have been guilty. From Wordnik.com. [S.O.S. Stand to!] Reference
And then they took out personal items after ransacking the house and then had the press conference and said, "We ` ve got him.". From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Jun 6, 2005] Reference
We saw the ransacking of one of the Royal Bank of Scotland unit yesterday and quite a lot of aggravation in certain parts of town. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Apr 2, 2009] Reference
No doubt every fellow had meanwhile been industriously engaged in ransacking his brain to remember all he had ever heard concerning. From Wordnik.com. [Pathfinder or, The Missing Tenderfoot] Reference
I was casting about for a fitting illustration, fumbling in imagery's twilight chamber and ransacking the halls of history, when lo!. From Wordnik.com. [St. Cuthbert's] Reference
"Who is Nellie?" enquired the ugly little man, turning round suddenly from the book case which he had been industriously ransacking. From Wordnik.com. [The Workingman's Paradise An Australian Labour Novel] Reference
The unclad working class panorama would slam rusted doors on the Promised Land, ransacking determined belief from our official atheism. From Wordnik.com. [Soviet] Reference
Then she felt certain: there was nothing missing, yet she was convinced that someone had been ransacking her belongings pretty thoroughly. From Wordnik.com. [Juggernaut] Reference
He found no great store even after ransacking all the houses within reach, and determined to undertake a longer journey in search of more. From Wordnik.com. [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 56, Number 348] Reference
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