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 →

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 →
• They ransacked the kitchen and ate everything they found. tree →
• Search parties ransacked the town, but found no sign of her. tree →

note

nothing for maths

Trees and pragmatics

Every meaning and example of «ransacked» parsed by Mova, each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.