"ransackle" meaning in English

See ransackle in All languages combined, or Wiktionary

Adjective

Forms: more ransackle [comparative], most ransackle [superlative]
Head templates: {{en-adj}} ransackle (comparative more ransackle, superlative most ransackle)
  1. Alternative form of ramshackle Tags: alt-of, alternative Alternative form of: ramshackle
    Sense id: en-ransackle-en-adj-8GbojxDh Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, Pages with 1 entry, Pages with entries Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 77 23 Disambiguation of Pages with 1 entry: 79 21 Disambiguation of Pages with entries: 84 16

Verb

Forms: ransackles [present, singular, third-person], ransackling [participle, present], ransackled [participle, past], ransackled [past]
Head templates: {{en-verb}} ransackle (third-person singular simple present ransackles, present participle ransackling, simple past and past participle ransackled)
  1. To ransack. Synonyms: ranshackle, ranshakle
    Sense id: en-ransackle-en-verb-yIQGJ0rc

Inflected forms

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    },
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      "form": "ransackled",
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          "ref": "1633, Ben Jonson, The tale of a Tub.:",
          "text": "And yet zay nothing for me, but devise All the strićt means, to ransackle me o' my money.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1976, David Bergamini, Venus Development, page 183:",
          "text": "“You're making it very tough for me,” said Fox. “Someone went into Yerkes Flats last night right under the helicopter cover. They ransackled the place, killed the caretaker —\"",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1978, Hampton V. City of Chicago, page 17:",
          "text": "On the latter date, the Black Panther Party offices were ransackled by police; typewriters sashed, the office set on fire; newspapers and food for the breakfast program and supplies for the health clinic destroyed, and the arrestees beaten.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2019, Paige Ackerson-Kiely, Dolefully, A Rampart Stands, page 52:",
          "text": "I'd rather the sword drawn in a blink than the slow soul ransackled by the State.",
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          "ref": "1979, Diane Brundage, The Ford Fellows in Educational Journalism Report, 1979, page 90:",
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          "ref": "1984, The Orissa Historical Research Journal:",
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        },
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          "ref": "2002, India. Ministry of Tribal Affairs, Annual Report, page 20:",
          "text": "The Jenukurubas of Hunsur Taluka, Mysore District Karnataka lived in ransackle shanties.",
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          "text": "And yet zay nothing for me, but devise All the strićt means, to ransackle me o' my money.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1976, David Bergamini, Venus Development, page 183:",
          "text": "“You're making it very tough for me,” said Fox. “Someone went into Yerkes Flats last night right under the helicopter cover. They ransackled the place, killed the caretaker —\"",
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          "ref": "1978, Hampton V. City of Chicago, page 17:",
          "text": "On the latter date, the Black Panther Party offices were ransackled by police; typewriters sashed, the office set on fire; newspapers and food for the breakfast program and supplies for the health clinic destroyed, and the arrestees beaten.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2019, Paige Ackerson-Kiely, Dolefully, A Rampart Stands, page 52:",
          "text": "I'd rather the sword drawn in a blink than the slow soul ransackled by the State.",
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        }
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        },
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          "ref": "2002, India. Ministry of Tribal Affairs, Annual Report, page 20:",
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