ransackle

present singular third person ransackles · participle present ransackling · participle past ransackled · past ransackled · alternative ranshackle · alternative ranshakle

1. Scotlandarchaic except Northern EnglandSynonym of ransack.

   I'd rather the sword drawn in a blink than the slow soul ransackled by the State.

   2019, Paige Ackerson-Kiely, Dolefully, A Rampart Stands, page 52

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   And yet zay nothing for me, but devise All the strićt means, to ransackle me o' my money.

   1633, Ben Jonson, The tale of a Tub.

   “You're making it very tough for me,” said Fox. “Someone went into Yerkes Flats last night right under the helicopter cover. They ransackled the place, killed the caretaker —"

   1976, David Bergamini, Venus Development, page 183

   On the latter date, the Black Panther Party offices were ransackled by police; typewriters sashed, the office set on fire; newspapers and food for the breakfast program and supplies for the health clinic destroyed, and the arrestees beaten.

   1978, Hampton V. City of Chicago, page 17

   Synonyms: ransack

comparative more ransackle · superlative most ransackle

1. alternativeAlternative form of ramshackle.

   The Jenukurubas of Hunsur Taluka, Mysore District Karnataka lived in ransackle shanties.

   2002, India. Ministry of Tribal Affairs, Annual Report, page 20

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   In the 34 years that he presided over Tuskegee. the school grew from two ransackle classrooms to 100 well-equipped buildings, more than 1,500 students.

   1979, Diane Brundage, The Ford Fellows in Educational Journalism Report, 1979, page 90

   In course of time many a such temple are lost to oblivion leaving only the images now kept in the newly built temples or in the ransackle houses.

   1984, The Orissa Historical Research Journal