ransack

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vt. 到处搜索, 遍寻, 掠夺, 洗劫 [法] 洗劫, 抢劫, 掠夺

发音

其它 /ˈɹænsæk/
US /ˈɹænsæk/

词形变化

ransacks 复数 ransacked ransacketh ransacking ransacks 三单 ransacks ransacking 现在分词 ransacked 过去式 ransacked 过去分词 ransackest ransackedst 过去式 ransacketh 三单 ransacked 复数

别名

ramshack

释义与例句

n.
  1. 1.

    Synonym of ransacking (“an act of ransacking (“searching thoroughly (in order to steal); etc.”) someone or something; an eager search”).

v.
  1. 1.

    To search (a place, through things, etc.) thoroughly, especially when vigorous and leaving behind a state of disarray.

    及物
  2. 2.

    To search (someone or a place) thoroughly in order to steal something, especially when vigorous and leaving behind a state of disarray; hence, to rob (someone or a place); to plunder.

    掠夺

    及物

    to ransack a house for valuables

  3. 3.

    To search for and steal (something) as plunder.

    及物
  4. 4.

    To examine (someone or something) carefully; to investigate; also, to question (someone) thoroughly; to interrogate.

    古体 比喻 及物
  5. 5.

    To look for or seek out (someone).

    废旧 及物
  6. 6.

    To search (someone) for a thing.

    废旧 及物
  7. 7.

    Synonym of penetrate (“to make way into the interior of (something); to pierce”); also, synonym of pervade (“to enter and spread through (something); to permeate”).

    比喻 废旧 及物
  8. 8.

    To search thoroughly, especially when leaving behind a state of disarray.

    不及物
  9. 9.

    To search for and steal things.

    古体 不及物

词汇关系

动词

同义词 9

strip rifle comb loot plunder pillage foray despoil reave

上位词 2

take search

下位词 2

deplume displume

词源

The verb is derived from Middle English ransaken (“to examine, investigate; to rob, plunder, steal; to search, seek; to treat roughly, mistreat”), from Old Norse rannsaka (“to search a house (especially for stolen goods)”), from rann (“house”) (from Proto-Germanic *razną (“dwelling, house”), from Proto-Indo-European *h₁reh₁- (“to rest; quiet”)) + saka, an ablaut variant of sœkja, sǿkja (“to look for, search, seek”) (from Proto-Germanic *sōkijaną (“to look for, seek”), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *seh₂g- (“to follow; to seek out, trace”)). Verb senses 1.2 (“to search (someone, or a place) thoroughly in order to steal something”), 1.3 (“to search for and steal (something) as plunder”), and 2.2 (“to search for and steal things”) are probably influenced by sack (“to pillage, to plunder”). The noun is derived from the verb. cognates * Middle Low German rānsāken, rantsāken * Old Danish randsage, ransage (modern Danish ransage) * Old Swedish ransaka (modern Swedish rannsaka)

来源：wiktionary