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The answer RANSACK has 138 possible clue(s) in existing crosswords.
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Definitions of ransack in various dictionaries:
verb - steal goods
verb - search thoroughly
To search or examine thoroughly.
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| Possible Jeopardy Clues |
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| Though from old Norse for "to search a house", pillage or plunder would be more accurate |
| To destructively search a house |
| Possible Dictionary Clues |
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| go through (a place) stealing things and causing damage. |
| To search or examine thoroughly. |
| To search carefully for plunder pillage. |
| search thoroughly |
| steal goods take as spoils |
| to search a place or container in a violent and careless way: |
| to completely search a place in a way that causes mess and damage: |
| Ransack might refer to |
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| Looting, also referred to as sacking, ransacking, plundering, despoiling, despoliation, and pillaging, is the indiscriminate taking of goods by force as part of a military or political victory, or during a catastrophe, such as war, natural disaster (where law and civil enforcement are temporarily ineffective), or rioting. The term is also used in a broader sense to describe egregious instances of theft and embezzlement, such as the "plundering" of private or public assets by governments.The proceeds of all these activities can be described as booty, loot, plunder, spoils, or pillage.* In armed conflict, pillage is prohibited by international law, and constitutes a war crime. |