Ransack

(v. t.) To search thoroughly; to search every place or part of; as, to ransack a house.

(v. t.) To plunder; to pillage completely.

(v. t.) To violate; to ravish; to defiour.

(v. i.) To make a thorough search.

(n.) The act of ransacking, or state of being ransacked; pillage.

校对:卢埃林

• He began to ransack his tutor's desk for a piece of wax or twine necessary to his work. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 雪莉.
• I had to ransack my memory for some more similes. 马克·吐温. 傻子出国记.
• Twice burglars in my pay ransacked her house. 阿瑟·柯南·道尔. 福尔摩斯历险记.
• In the interest s of his art the medical practitioner ransacked the resources of organic and inorganic nature. 李贝. 西洋科学史.
• I have been to her mother, I have ransacked the village--and all to no purpose. 威尔基·柯林斯. 白衣女人.
• We have seen the mineral and vegetable kingdoms rifled and ransacked for substances that would yield the best filament. 弗兰克·刘易斯·戴尔. 爱迪生的生平和发明.
• Slipping in at the door he found that everything had been ransacked. 埃德加·赖斯·巴勒斯. 人猿泰山.
• Carefully they ransacked every hut and corner of the village, but no sign of D'Arnot could they find. 埃德加·赖斯·巴勒斯. 人猿泰山.
• The world was ransacked for anything that might be claimed as an anticipation of what he had done. 弗兰克·刘易斯·戴尔. 爱迪生的生平和发明.
• She had the ransacking of the wardrobes of the two defunct ladies, and cut and hacked their posthumous finery so as to suit her own tastes and figure. 威廉·梅克比斯·萨克雷. 名利场.
• What are you two about, she continued, ransacking Mr. Moore's desk? 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 雪莉.

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