Definition of Ransacked

1. Adjective. Wrongfully emptied or stripped of anything of value. "People returned to the plundered village"

Exact synonyms: Looted, Pillaged, Plundered
Similar to: Empty

Definition of Ransacked

1. Verb. (past of ransack) ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Ransacked

1. ransack [v] - See also: ransack

Lexicographical Neighbors of Ransacked

ranks
rankshift
rankshifted
rankshifting
rankshifts
rann
rannels
rannies
ranns
ranny
ranolazine
ranpike
ranpikes
ransack
ransacked
ransacker
ransackers
ransacking
ransacks
ransel
ransels
ranseur
ranseurs
ransom
ransom money
ransomable
ransomed
ransomer
ransomers

Literary usage of Ransacked

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Sir David Wilkie, R. A. by William Bayne (1903)
"The Wardrobe Ransacked "—Picture of the Neave family— ARA— Haydon's quarrel with the Royal Academy — Wilkie's withdrawal of " The Wardrobe Ransacked " from ..."

2. The History of the Rise, Increase, and Progress of the Christian People by William Sewel (1844)
"... shops, barns, and fields, ransacked and swept of goods, corn, and cattle ; tending also to the great discouragement of trade and husbandry, ..."

3. The Spanish Settlements Within the Present Limits of the United States, 1513 by Woodbury Lowery (1901)
"In the presence of part of the people who had landed, of the notary, the monks and officers of the expedition,1 and of the deserted and ransacked huts, ..."

4. The Trial of Theodore Parker: For the "misdemeanor" of a Speech in Faneuil by Theodore Parker (1855)
"The country was scoured, houses ransacked, and about thirty arrests made. Among those arrested were Castner ..."

5. The Trial of Theodore Parker: For the "misdemeanor" of a Speech in Faneuil by Theodore Parker (1855)
"The country was scoured, houses ransacked, and about thirty arrests made. Among those arrested were Castner ..."

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