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RANSACKED
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I. (adjective)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Wrongfully emptied or stripped of anything of value
Example:
people returned to the plundered village
Synonyms:
looted; pillaged; plundered; ransacked
Classified under:
Similar:
empty (holding or containing nothing)
II. (verb)
Sense 1
Past simple / past participle of the verb ransack
Context examples:
You will learn from Poole how I have had London ransacked; it was in vain; and I am now persuaded that my first supply was impure, and that it was that unknown impurity which lent efficacy to the draught.
(The Strange Case Of Dr. Jekyll And Mr. Hyde, by Robert Louis Stevenson)
The whole place was turned upside down, drawers burst open, and presses ransacked, with the result that an odd volume of Pope’s ‘Homer,’ two plated candlesticks, an ivory letter-weight, a small oak barometer, and a ball of twine are all that have vanished.
(The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
