ransack

ransack

/ˈrænsæk/

​ransack something to make a place untidy, causing damage, because you are looking for something

Burglars ransacked her home.

The house had been ransacked by burglars.

The palace was ransacked by rioters in 1848.

Word Origin

Middle English: from Old Norse rannsaka, from rann ‘house’ + a second element related to sœkja ‘seek’.

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