英和和英

動詞

ransackle (third-person singular simple present ransackles, present participle ransackling, simple past and past participle ransackled)

1. (archaic except Northern England, Scotland) Synonym of ransack.
   • 1633, Ben Jonson, The tale of a Tub.:

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

   • 1976, David Bergamini, Venus Development, page 183:

     “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 —"

   • 1978, Hampton V. City of Chicago, page 17:

     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.

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

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