"ransack" meaning in English

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Noun

IPA: /ˈɹænsæk/ Audio: LL-Q1860 (eng)-Vealhurl-ransack.wav [Southern-England] Forms: ransacks [plural]
Etymology: From Middle English ransaken, from Old Norse rannsaka, from rann (“house”) + saka (“search”); probably influenced by sack. Compare Danish ransage, Swedish rannsaka. Etymology templates: {{inh|en|enm|ransaken|}} Middle English ransaken, {{der|en|non|rannsaka}} Old Norse rannsaka, {{m|non|rann||house}} rann (“house”), {{m|non|saka||search}} saka (“search”), {{cog|da|ransage}} Danish ransage, {{cog|sv|rannsaka}} Swedish rannsaka Head templates: {{en-noun}} ransack (plural ransacks)
  1. Eager search.
    Sense id: en-ransack-en-noun-GxtpgFWJ

Verb

IPA: /ˈɹænsæk/ Audio: LL-Q1860 (eng)-Vealhurl-ransack.wav [Southern-England] Forms: ransacks [present, singular, third-person], ransacking [participle, present], ransacked [participle, past], ransacked [past]
Etymology: From Middle English ransaken, from Old Norse rannsaka, from rann (“house”) + saka (“search”); probably influenced by sack. Compare Danish ransage, Swedish rannsaka. Etymology templates: {{inh|en|enm|ransaken|}} Middle English ransaken, {{der|en|non|rannsaka}} Old Norse rannsaka, {{m|non|rann||house}} rann (“house”), {{m|non|saka||search}} saka (“search”), {{cog|da|ransage}} Danish ransage, {{cog|sv|rannsaka}} Swedish rannsaka Head templates: {{en-verb}} ransack (third-person singular simple present ransacks, present participle ransacking, simple past and past participle ransacked)
  1. (transitive) To loot or pillage. See also sack. Tags: transitive Translations (to loot or pillage): ограбвам (ograbvam) (Bulgarian), 掠夺 (lüèduó) (Chinese Mandarin), plyndre (Danish), plunderen (Dutch), ryöstää (Finnish), rosvota (Finnish), mettre à sac (French), saccager (French), plündern (German), kifoszt (Hungarian), saccheggiare (Italian), dīripiō (Latin), praedor (Latin), expīlō (Latin), pāhuahua (Maori), pāhua (Maori), muru (-a) (Maori), plądrować [imperfective] (Polish), prăda (Romanian), saquear (Spanish), desvalijar (Spanish)
    Sense id: en-ransack-en-verb-fNFl4-lz Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 27 39 29 2 2 Disambiguation of 'to loot or pillage': 93 4 2 2
  2. (transitive) To make a vigorous and thorough search of (a place, person) with a view to stealing something, especially when leaving behind a state of disarray. Tags: transitive Translations (to make a thorough search or examination for plunder): претърсвам (pretǎrsvam) (Bulgarian), претършувам (pretǎršuvam) (Bulgarian), 洗劫 (xǐjié) (Chinese Mandarin), ransage (Danish), penkoa (Finnish), koluta (Finnish), fouiller (French), durchwühlen (German), felforgat (Hungarian), tiomsaigh (Irish), rovistare (Italian), pervēnor (Latin), escudriñar (Spanish), rannsaka (Swedish)
    Sense id: en-ransack-en-verb-j632grPi Disambiguation of 'to make a thorough search or examination for plunder': 14 74 5 7
  3. (archaic) To examine carefully; to investigate. Tags: archaic
    Sense id: en-ransack-en-verb-P7DzTylx
  4. To violate; to ravish; to deflower.
    Sense id: en-ransack-en-verb-QS4t4aps

Inflected forms

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          "thorough"
        ],
        [
          "search",
          "search"
        ],
        [
          "stealing",
          "stealing"
        ],
        [
          "disarray",
          "disarray"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(transitive) To make a vigorous and thorough search of (a place, person) with a view to stealing something, especially when leaving behind a state of disarray."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "transitive"
      ]
    },
    {
      "categories": [
        "English terms with archaic senses"
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "To examine carefully; to investigate."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "examine",
          "examine"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(archaic) To examine carefully; to investigate."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "archaic"
      ]
    },
    {
      "glosses": [
        "To violate; to ravish; to deflower."
      ]
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "ipa": "/ˈɹænsæk/"
    },
    {
      "homophone": "RANSAC"
    },
    {
      "audio": "LL-Q1860 (eng)-Vealhurl-ransack.wav",
      "mp3_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/8/8c/LL-Q1860_%28eng%29-Vealhurl-ransack.wav/LL-Q1860_%28eng%29-Vealhurl-ransack.wav.mp3",
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      "tags": [
        "Southern-England"
      ],
      "text": "Audio (Southern England)"
    }
  ],
  "translations": [
    {
      "code": "bg",
      "lang": "Bulgarian",
      "roman": "ograbvam",
      "sense": "to loot or pillage",
      "word": "ограбвам"
    },
    {
      "code": "cmn",
      "lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
      "roman": "lüèduó",
      "sense": "to loot or pillage",
      "word": "掠夺"
    },
    {
      "code": "da",
      "lang": "Danish",
      "sense": "to loot or pillage",
      "word": "plyndre"
    },
    {
      "code": "nl",
      "lang": "Dutch",
      "sense": "to loot or pillage",
      "word": "plunderen"
    },
    {
      "code": "fi",
      "lang": "Finnish",
      "sense": "to loot or pillage",
      "word": "ryöstää"
    },
    {
      "code": "fi",
      "lang": "Finnish",
      "sense": "to loot or pillage",
      "word": "rosvota"
    },
    {
      "code": "fr",
      "lang": "French",
      "sense": "to loot or pillage",
      "word": "mettre à sac"
    },
    {
      "code": "fr",
      "lang": "French",
      "sense": "to loot or pillage",
      "word": "saccager"
    },
    {
      "code": "de",
      "lang": "German",
      "sense": "to loot or pillage",
      "word": "plündern"
    },
    {
      "code": "hu",
      "lang": "Hungarian",
      "sense": "to loot or pillage",
      "word": "kifoszt"
    },
    {
      "code": "it",
      "lang": "Italian",
      "sense": "to loot or pillage",
      "word": "saccheggiare"
    },
    {
      "code": "la",
      "lang": "Latin",
      "sense": "to loot or pillage",
      "word": "dīripiō"
    },
    {
      "code": "la",
      "lang": "Latin",
      "sense": "to loot or pillage",
      "word": "praedor"
    },
    {
      "code": "la",
      "lang": "Latin",
      "sense": "to loot or pillage",
      "word": "expīlō"
    },
    {
      "code": "mi",
      "lang": "Maori",
      "sense": "to loot or pillage",
      "word": "pāhuahua"
    },
    {
      "code": "mi",
      "lang": "Maori",
      "sense": "to loot or pillage",
      "word": "pāhua"
    },
    {
      "code": "mi",
      "lang": "Maori",
      "sense": "to loot or pillage",
      "word": "muru (-a)"
    },
    {
      "code": "pl",
      "lang": "Polish",
      "sense": "to loot or pillage",
      "tags": [
        "imperfective"
      ],
      "word": "plądrować"
    },
    {
      "code": "ro",
      "lang": "Romanian",
      "sense": "to loot or pillage",
      "word": "prăda"
    },
    {
      "code": "es",
      "lang": "Spanish",
      "sense": "to loot or pillage",
      "word": "saquear"
    },
    {
      "code": "es",
      "lang": "Spanish",
      "sense": "to loot or pillage",
      "word": "desvalijar"
    },
    {
      "code": "bg",
      "lang": "Bulgarian",
      "roman": "pretǎrsvam",
      "sense": "to make a thorough search or examination for plunder",
      "word": "претърсвам"
    },
    {
      "code": "bg",
      "lang": "Bulgarian",
      "roman": "pretǎršuvam",
      "sense": "to make a thorough search or examination for plunder",
      "word": "претършувам"
    },
    {
      "code": "cmn",
      "lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
      "roman": "xǐjié",
      "sense": "to make a thorough search or examination for plunder",
      "word": "洗劫"
    },
    {
      "code": "da",
      "lang": "Danish",
      "sense": "to make a thorough search or examination for plunder",
      "word": "ransage"
    },
    {
      "code": "fi",
      "lang": "Finnish",
      "sense": "to make a thorough search or examination for plunder",
      "word": "penkoa"
    },
    {
      "code": "fi",
      "lang": "Finnish",
      "sense": "to make a thorough search or examination for plunder",
      "word": "koluta"
    },
    {
      "code": "fr",
      "lang": "French",
      "sense": "to make a thorough search or examination for plunder",
      "word": "fouiller"
    },
    {
      "code": "de",
      "lang": "German",
      "sense": "to make a thorough search or examination for plunder",
      "word": "durchwühlen"
    },
    {
      "code": "hu",
      "lang": "Hungarian",
      "sense": "to make a thorough search or examination for plunder",
      "word": "felforgat"
    },
    {
      "code": "ga",
      "lang": "Irish",
      "sense": "to make a thorough search or examination for plunder",
      "word": "tiomsaigh"
    },
    {
      "code": "it",
      "lang": "Italian",
      "sense": "to make a thorough search or examination for plunder",
      "word": "rovistare"
    },
    {
      "code": "la",
      "lang": "Latin",
      "sense": "to make a thorough search or examination for plunder",
      "word": "pervēnor"
    },
    {
      "code": "es",
      "lang": "Spanish",
      "sense": "to make a thorough search or examination for plunder",
      "word": "escudriñar"
    },
    {
      "code": "sv",
      "lang": "Swedish",
      "sense": "to make a thorough search or examination for plunder",
      "word": "rannsaka"
    }
  ],
  "word": "ransack"
}

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  "categories": [
    "English 2-syllable words",
    "English countable nouns",
    "English entries with incorrect language header",
    "English lemmas",
    "English nouns",
    "English terms derived from Middle English",
    "English terms derived from Old Norse",
    "English terms inherited from Middle English",
    "English terms with IPA pronunciation",
    "English terms with audio links",
    "English terms with homophones",
    "English verbs"
  ],
  "etymology_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "enm",
        "3": "ransaken",
        "4": ""
      },
      "expansion": "Middle English ransaken",
      "name": "inh"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "non",
        "3": "rannsaka"
      },
      "expansion": "Old Norse rannsaka",
      "name": "der"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "non",
        "2": "rann",
        "3": "",
        "4": "house"
      },
      "expansion": "rann (“house”)",
      "name": "m"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "non",
        "2": "saka",
        "3": "",
        "4": "search"
      },
      "expansion": "saka (“search”)",
      "name": "m"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "da",
        "2": "ransage"
      },
      "expansion": "Danish ransage",
      "name": "cog"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "sv",
        "2": "rannsaka"
      },
      "expansion": "Swedish rannsaka",
      "name": "cog"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "From Middle English ransaken, from Old Norse rannsaka, from rann (“house”) + saka (“search”); probably influenced by sack. Compare Danish ransage, Swedish rannsaka.",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "ransacks",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
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    {
      "args": {},
      "expansion": "ransack (plural ransacks)",
      "name": "en-noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        "English terms with quotations",
        "Quotation templates to be cleaned"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1861, The Eclectic Magazine of Foreign Literature, Science, and Art",
          "text": "Perhaps this stone also will turn up in the ransack of the sultan's treasury.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Eager search."
      ]
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "ipa": "/ˈɹænsæk/"
    },
    {
      "homophone": "RANSAC"
    },
    {
      "audio": "LL-Q1860 (eng)-Vealhurl-ransack.wav",
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      "tags": [
        "Southern-England"
      ],
      "text": "Audio (Southern England)"
    }
  ],
  "word": "ransack"
}

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