ransack

Meaning of ransack

verb
  1. 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:

comb

Meaning conduct a raid on:

raid

Meaning steal:

rob

Meaning dismiss from employment:

sack

Meaning strip (something) of its covering, possessions, or assets:

denude

Meaning cause severe and extensive damage to:

ravage

Meaning go about in search of things to steal or people to attack:

maraud

Meaning destroy or ruin:

devastate

Meaning steal from, typically using force; plunder:

depredate

Meaning rob of something; plunder:

spoliate

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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