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Meanings of ransacked in English

Wrongfully emptied or stripped of anything of value.

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        1
        The room was in disorder-thedrawers pulled out and the contents ransacked.
        The Sleuth of St. James's Square
        2
        Demonstrators stormed the Legislative Council building on July 1 and ransacked it.
        Reuters
        3
        Every unoccupied farm they'd visited had been ransacked for food and livestock.
        The Naked God
        4
        He said the thieves ransacked the hardware's office in search of cash.
        Jamaica Observer
        5
        Slipping in at the door he found that everything had been ransacked.
        Tarzan of the Apes
        6
        In truth, all the world had been ransacked to make Rome beautiful.
        Saint Augustin
        7
        And when you find the room ransacked, you run after the law.
        The Sleuth of St. James's Square
        8
        We ransacked that room as few rooms have been ransacked in years.
        The Circular Study
        9
        They had ransacked the country west and north of Cattolica without result.
        The Shame of Motley: being the memoir of certain transactions in...
        10
        And violated and exposed, as if her body itself had been ransacked.
        A fierce radiance: a novel
        11
        The whole country was immediately ransacked for a stud of quiet donkeys.
        The Life of Marie Antoinette, Queen of France
        12
        He ransacked his mind for the brightest stories he had ever read.
        Andy the Acrobat / Or, Out with the Greatest Show on Earth
        13
        The stables were ransacked and eight of the rajah's best horses taken.
        In Times of Peril: A Tale of India
        14
        Some of the apartments had already been ransacked-theirfurnishings slashed and broken.
        Darkness on the edge of town
        15
        Images surfaced in Heat's mind of her mom's and Nicole's ransacked apartments.
        Frozen Heat
        16
        Every cabin had been ransacked, with the willing consent of its occupants.
        The Honour of the Flag
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