ransack
verb · nounB1Định nghĩa theo từ loại
Động từ
verb- 1.
(transitive)To search (a place, through things, etc.) thoroughly, especially when vigorous and leaving behind a state of disarray.
Đồng nghĩa: rifle
- 2.
(transitive)To search (someone or a place) thoroughly in order to steal something, especially when vigorous and leaving behind a state of disarray; hence, to rob (someone or a place); to plunder.
to ransack a house for valuables
Đồng nghĩa: loot, pillage, rifle, sack
- 3.
(transitive)To search for and steal (something) as plunder.
- 4.
(archaic, figuratively, transitive)To examine (someone or something) carefully; to investigate; also, to question (someone) thoroughly; to interrogate.
- 5.
(obsolete, transitive)To look for or seek out (someone).
- 6.
(obsolete, transitive)To search (someone) for a thing.
- 7.
(figuratively, obsolete, transitive)Synonym of penetrate (“to make way into the interior of (something); to pierce”); also, synonym of pervade (“to enter and spread through (something); to permeate”).
Đồng nghĩa: penetrate
- 8.
(intransitive)To search thoroughly, especially when leaving behind a state of disarray.
- 9.
(archaic, intransitive)To search for and steal things.
Danh từ
noun- 1.
Synonym of ransacking (“an act of ransacking (“searching thoroughly (in order to steal); etc.”) someone or something; an eager search”).
Đồng nghĩa: ransacking
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ine-pro The verb is derived from Middle English ransaken, from Old Norse rannsaka (to search a house (especially for stolen goods)), from rann (house) (from Proto-Germanic *razną (dwelling, house), from Proto-Indo-European *h₁reh₁- (to rest;