What does "ransack" mean?
Ransack: To plunder; to pillage completely. Their vow is made To ransack Troy. Shak.
Additional senses
- 2.To violate; to ravish; to defiour. [Obs.] Rich spoil of ransacked chastity. Spenser.
- 3.To make a thorough search. To ransack in the tas [heap] of bodies dead. Chaucer.
- 4.The act of ransacking, or state of being ransacked; pillage. [R.] Even your father's house Shall not be free fromransack. J. Webster.
Sources
- Webster's Unabridged Dictionary, 1913 edition (public domain, via GCIDE / Project Gutenberg).
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