RANSACKED

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does ransacked mean? 

• RANSACKED (adjective)
  The adjective RANSACKED has 1 sense:

1. wrongfully emptied or stripped of anything of value

  Familiarity information: RANSACKED used as an adjective is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• RANSACKED (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Wrongfully emptied or stripped of anything of value

Synonyms:

looted; pillaged; plundered; ransacked

Context example:

people returned to the plundered village

Similar:

empty (holding or containing nothing)

 Context examples 

There were no other weapons, though I thoroughly ransacked the three remaining state-rooms.

(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)

As explained by Professor Summerlee, our cameras have been tampered with by the ape-men when they ransacked our camp, and most of our negatives ruined.

(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Five attempts have been made. Twice burglars in my pay ransacked her house. Once we diverted her luggage when she travelled. Twice she has been waylaid. There has been no result.

(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Mr. Ford did not wait, but ransacked his pockets, with the result of sixty cents.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

The thieves ransacked the library and got very little for their pains.

(The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

At this moment, however, the rooms bore every mark of having been recently and hurriedly ransacked; clothes lay about the floor, with their pockets inside out; lock-fast drawers stood open; and on the hearth there lay a pile of grey ashes, as though many papers had been burned.

(The Strange Case Of Dr. Jekyll And Mr. Hyde, by Robert Louis Stevenson)

But Mr. Dashwood rejected any but thrilling tales, and as thrills could not be produced except by harrowing up the souls of the readers, history and romance, land and sea, science and art, police records and lunatic asylums, had to be ransacked for the purpose.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)

Mrs. Fairfax was summoned to give information respecting the resources of the house in shawls, dresses, draperies of any kind; and certain wardrobes of the third storey were ransacked, and their contents, in the shape of brocaded and hooped petticoats, satin sacques, black modes, lace lappets, &c., were brought down in armfuls by the abigails; then a selection was made, and such things as were chosen were carried to the boudoir within the drawing-room.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

The furniture was scattered about in every direction, with dismantled shelves and open drawers, as if the lady had hurriedly ransacked them before her flight.

(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

It is, as I have said, a labyrinth of an old house, especially the original wing, which is now practically uninhabited; but we ransacked every room and cellar without discovering the least sign of the missing man.

(The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)