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# ransacked

«ransacked» in Mova's school dictionary: **to search it roughly and messily, turning everything over…** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples.

### part of speech

verb (ransack, ransacks, ransacked, ransacking)

### meaning for a pupil

To ransack a place is to search it roughly and messily, turning everything over and leaving it in a mess. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/R/ransacked/#m1)

### sense in the lessons

in tales, people search a house or town hunting for something or for food

### examples

- The thieves ransacked the house for money. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/R/ransacked/#x1)
- They ransacked the kitchen and ate everything they found. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/R/ransacked/#x2)
- Search parties ransacked the town, but found no sign of her. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/R/ransacked/#x3)

### note

nothing for maths

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «ransacked» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/R/ransacked/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.