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