ransack
ransack is defined in Webster's Unabridged Dictionary (1913) with 4 senses. The full text of each entry is reproduced verbatim below.
Definitions
- 1.To plunder; to pillage completely. Their vow is made To ransack Troy. Shak.
- 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.
Source: Webster's Unabridged Dictionary, 1913 edition (public domain, via GCIDE / Project Gutenberg).
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Definition-first questions whose answer is ransack.
- What is to plunder; to pillage completely. Their vow is made To ransack Troy. Shak called?
- What is to violate; to ravish; to defiour. [Obs.] Rich spoil of ransacked chastity. Spenser called?
- What is to make a thorough search. To ransack in the tas [heap] of bodies dead. Chaucer called?
- What is the act of ransacking, or state of being ransacked; pillage. [R.] Even your father's house Shall not be free fromransack. J. Webster called?
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- Definitions: Webster's Unabridged Dictionary, 1913 edition (public domain, via GCIDE / Project Gutenberg).
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