ransack
Meaning of ransack
verb
- go through (a place) stealing things and causing damage.
burglars ransacked her home
Middle English: from Old Norse rannsaka, from rann ‘house’ + a second element related to sœkja ‘seek’.
Information about ransack
- It is a verb.
- The plural form of ransack is: ransacks.
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Hyphenation of ransack
ran-sack
- It consists of 2 syllables and 7 chars.
- ransack is a word disyllabic because it has two syllables
ransack synonyms
Meaning plunder:
plunder, despoil, loot, reave, strip, rifle, pillage, foray
Meaning comb:
Meaning conduct a raid on:
Meaning steal:
Meaning dismiss from employment:
Meaning strip (something) of its covering, possessions, or assets:
Meaning cause severe and extensive damage to:
Meaning go about in search of things to steal or people to attack:
Meaning destroy or ruin:
Meaning steal from, typically using force; plunder:
Meaning rob of something; plunder:
Words that rhyme with ransack
sack, doodlesack, resack, tesack, draffsack, Nooksack, packsack, rucksack, Coalsack, Dudelsack, coalsack, dudelsack, mailsack, woolsack, Hackensack, cornsack, insack, unsack, gripsack, hopsack, knapsack, ripsack, snapsack, haversack, Cossack, cossack, mussack, Cusack, dusack, towsack, daysack, gunnysack
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