"ransackle" meaning in English

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    {
      "form": "ransackles",
      "tags": [
        "present",
        "singular",
        "third-person"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "ransackling",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "present"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "ransackled",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "ransackled",
      "tags": [
        "past"
      ]
    }
  ],
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    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "verb",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [],
      "examples": [
        {
          "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": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "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": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "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": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "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.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "To ransack."
      ],
      "id": "en-ransackle-en-verb-yIQGJ0rc",
      "links": [
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        ]
      ],
      "synonyms": [
        {
          "word": "ranshackle"
        },
        {
          "word": "ranshakle"
        }
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "ransackle"
}

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  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "more ransackle",
      "tags": [
        "comparative"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "most ransackle",
      "tags": [
        "superlative"
      ]
    }
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  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "adj",
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    {
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        {
          "word": "ramshackle"
        }
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      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1979, Diane Brundage, The Ford Fellows in Educational Journalism Report, 1979, page 90",
          "text": "In the 34 years that he presided over Tuskegee. the school grew from two ransackle classrooms to 100 well-equipped buildings, more than 1,500 students.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1984, The Orissa Historical Research Journal",
          "text": "In course of time many a such temple are lost to oblivion leaving only the images now kept in the newly built temples or in the ransackle houses.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2002, India. Ministry of Tribal Affairs, Annual Report, page 20",
          "text": "The Jenukurubas of Hunsur Taluka, Mysore District Karnataka lived in ransackle shanties.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
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        "Alternative form of ramshackle"
      ],
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        [
          "ramshackle",
          "ramshackle#English"
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    }
  ],
  "word": "ransackle"
}

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    "English entries with incorrect language header",
    "English lemmas",
    "English verbs"
  ],
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "ransackles",
      "tags": [
        "present",
        "singular",
        "third-person"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "ransackling",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "present"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "ransackled",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "ransackled",
      "tags": [
        "past"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
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  "pos": "verb",
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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": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "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": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "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": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "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.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "To ransack."
      ],
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        [
          "ransack",
          "ransack"
        ]
      ]
    }
  ],
  "synonyms": [
    {
      "word": "ranshackle"
    },
    {
      "word": "ranshakle"
    }
  ],
  "word": "ransackle"
}

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    "English entries with incorrect language header",
    "English lemmas",
    "English verbs"
  ],
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "more ransackle",
      "tags": [
        "comparative"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "most ransackle",
      "tags": [
        "superlative"
      ]
    }
  ],
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  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "adj",
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    {
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        {
          "word": "ramshackle"
        }
      ],
      "categories": [
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      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1979, Diane Brundage, The Ford Fellows in Educational Journalism Report, 1979, page 90",
          "text": "In the 34 years that he presided over Tuskegee. the school grew from two ransackle classrooms to 100 well-equipped buildings, more than 1,500 students.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1984, The Orissa Historical Research Journal",
          "text": "In course of time many a such temple are lost to oblivion leaving only the images now kept in the newly built temples or in the ransackle houses.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2002, India. Ministry of Tribal Affairs, Annual Report, page 20",
          "text": "The Jenukurubas of Hunsur Taluka, Mysore District Karnataka lived in ransackle shanties.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Alternative form of ramshackle"
      ],
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          "ramshackle#English"
        ]
      ],
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  "word": "ransackle"
}