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# ransacked

verb (ransack, ransacks, ransacked, ransacking)

«ransacked» in the English dictionary: everyday — its meanings, how the lessons use it, and examples, each with its tree on Mova.

## Everyday

To ransack a place is to search it roughly and messily, turning everything over and leaving it in a mess. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/R/ransacked/#m1)

### In the lessons

in tales, people search a house or town hunting for something or for food

### Examples

- The thieves ransacked the house for money. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/R/ransacked/#x1)
- They ransacked the kitchen and ate everything they found. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/R/ransacked/#x2)
- Search parties ransacked the town, but found no sign of her. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/R/ransacked/#x3)

### Note

nothing for maths

## On Mova

- [Trees and pragmatics of «ransacked» in the school dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/R/ransacked/): every meaning and example parsed by Mova, with its dependency tree and frames.
- [«ransacked» in the school dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/school/w/ransacked.html) on Mova free.