Tikibu: pronunciation dictionary with use examples

Word: ransacked
IPA transcription: [ɹ'æns,ækt]
adverb meaning of the word
  • Synonyms: looted, pillaged, plundered, ransacked
    Meaning: wrongfully emptied or stripped of anything of value; "the robbers left the looted train"; "people returned to the plundered village"
Usage examples
  • And anon he ransacked him; and then he said unto Sir Galahad: I shall heal him of his wound, by the grace of God, within the term of seven weeks.
  • Nevertheless, the house of l'Estorade had done its best; the cupboards had been ransacked, and its last man beaten up for the dinner, which was served to us on old silver dishes, blackened and battered.
  • Carol and Elfrida, her pretty German nurse, had ransacked books, and introduced so many plans, and plays, and customs and merry-makings from Germany, and Holland, and England and a dozen other places, that you would scarcely have known how or where you were keeping Christmas.