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ransack
Overview of verb ransack
The verb ransack has 2 senses (first 2 from tagged texts)
1. (3) plunder, despoil, loot, reave, strip, rifle, ransack, pillage, foray -- (steal goods; take as spoils; "During the earthquake people looted the stores that were deserted by their owners")
2. (3) comb, ransack -- (search thoroughly; "They combed the area for the missing child")
Grep of noun ransack
ransacking
Antonyms of verb ransack
Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Estimated Frequency) of verb ransack
2 senses of ransack
Sense 1
plunder, despoil, loot, reave, strip, rifle, ransack, pillage, foray
=> take
Sense 2
comb, ransack
=> search
=> examine, see
Troponyms (hyponyms) of verb ransack
1 of 2 senses of ransack
Sense 1
plunder, despoil, loot, reave, strip, rifle, ransack, pillage, foray
=> deplume, displume
Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Estimated Frequency) of verb ransack
2 senses of ransack
Sense 1
plunder, despoil, loot, reave, strip, rifle, ransack, pillage, foray
=> take
Sense 2
comb, ransack
=> search
'Cause To' of verb ransack
Derived Forms of verb ransack
1 of 2 senses of ransack
Sense 2
comb, ransack
RELATED TO>(noun) ransacking#1
=> ransacking, rummage
Domain of verb ransack
Domain Terms of verb ransack
Familiarity of verb ransack
ransack used as a verb is rare (polysemy count =2)
Sample Sentences of verb ransack
2 senses of ransack
Sense 1
plunder, despoil, loot, reave, strip, rifle, ransack, pillage, foray
*> Somebody ----s something
Sense 2
comb, ransack
EX: The customs agents ransack the bags for drugs
Coordinate Terms (sisters) of verb ransack
2 senses of ransack
Sense 1
plunder, despoil, loot, reave, strip, rifle, ransack, pillage, foray
> take
=> rescue
=> scale
=> extort
=> assume, usurp, seize, take over, arrogate
=> recapture, retake
=> relieve
=> steal
=> plunder, despoil, loot, reave, strip, rifle, ransack, pillage, foray
=> sack, plunder
Sense 2
comb, ransack
> search
=> raid
=> frisk
=> strip-search
=> scan
=> rifle, go
=> rummage
=> comb, ransack
Synonyms (Grouped by Similarity of Meaning) of verb ransack
Sense 1
plunder, despoil, loot, reave, strip, rifle, ransack, pillage, foray
=> take
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Sense 2
comb, ransack
=> search
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Grep of verb ransack
ransack
Grep of adj ransack
ransacked
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