Meaning & use
Ransacking
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Searching a place thoroughly and often violently, typically in order to steal from it or cause damage.
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Looters were caught ransacking the abandoned warehouse.
She spent an hour ransacking her closet for the missing shoe.
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From Old Norse 'rannsaka', literally 'to search a house', combining 'rann' (house) and 'saka' (to search).
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