ransacking

English

Verb

ransacking

1. present participle and gerund of ransack

Noun

ransacking (plural ransackings)

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

   Synonym: ransack

   • 2013, Andrew Merrifield, Henri Lefebvre: A Critical Introduction, page 58:

     Lefebvre never saw any of these battles and ransackings, but one wonders what he would have made of them.

Translations

act of ransacking someone or something