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Definition: Ransacking |
RansackingNoun1. A thorough search for something (often causing disorder or confusion); "he gave the attic a good rummage but couldn't find his skis". Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "ransacking" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1350. (references) |
Synonym: RansackingSynonym: rummage (n). (additional references) |
| Domain | Title |
Books | |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Title | Author | Quote |
Les Miserables | Hugo, Victor | Javert advanced slowly, sounding and ransacking on his way all the recesses of the street as he would the pockets of a thief. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
| Subject | Topic | Quote |
Civil Liberties | Congo | These abuses, usually the ransacking of churches and the pilfering of church property, generally were committed by undisciplined government troops. (references) |
Human Rights | Bangladesh | Approximately 40 persons, mostly Awami League student activists, staged violent demonstrations, ransacking shops and damaging vehicles. (references) |
Liberia | There were no further developments in the prosecution of eight former civil war combatants who were arrested after the November 2000 ransacking of the offices of the Center for Democratic Empowerment (CEDE) and the beating of former interim president and human rights defender Amos Sawyer and the organization's executive director, Conmany Wesseh. (references) | |
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits. | ||
| "Ransacking" is generally used as a lexical verb (-ing form) -- approximately 90.00% of the time. "Ransacking" is used about 10 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Lexical Verb (-ing form) | 90% | 9 | 117,287 |
| Noun (singular) | 10% | 1 | 339,140 |
| Total | 100.00% | 10 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| Language | Translations for "ransacking"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
German | durchwühlend, durchstöbernde, durchstöbernd. (various references) | |
Indonesian | penggeledahan (raid). (various references) | |
Manx | ronsey (search). (various references) | |
Pig Latin | ansackingray.(various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "ransacking" (pronounced ra"nsa'king) |
| 4 | -a' k i ng | backtracking, carjacking, hijacking, kayaking, meatpacking, piggybacking, quarterbacking, wisecracking. |
| 3 | -k i ng | aching, antismoking, asking, attacking, backing, baking, balking, banking, barking, basking, biking, bilking, blanking, blinking, blocking, bloodsucking, booking, bookmaking, braking, breaking, breathtaking, broking, Brooking, bucking, caulking, chalking, checking, choking, chucking, clanking, clicking, cloaking, clucking, cocking, coking, cooking, corking, cornhusking, cracking, cranking, creaking, critiquing, croaking, debunking, decking, disliking, docking, dressmaking, drinking, ducking, duking, earmarking, earthshaking, eking, embarking, evoking, faking, filmmaking, flaking, flanking, flicking, flocking, flunking, forking, forsaking, franking, freaking, frolicking, fucking, gawking, glassmaking, groundbreaking, hacking, handshaking, hardworking, harking, Hawking, heartbreaking, hiking, hitchhiking, Hocking, homemaking, honking, hooking, hulking, interlocking, invoking, jacking, jaywalking, jerking, joking, junking, kicking, knocking, lacking, lawbreaking, lawmaking, leaking, licking, liking, linking, locking, looking, lovemaking, Lucking, lurking, making, marking, masking, matchmaking, metalworking, milking, mimicking, mistaking, mocking, moneymaking, moviemaking, mucking, muckraking, multitasking, networking, nitpicking, nonbanking, nonsmoking, overbooking, overlooking, overtaking, packing, painstaking, panicking, papermaking, parking, peacemaking, peaking, pecking, peeking, perking, picking, planking, plinking, plucking, plunking, poking, politicking, provoking, quaking, racking, raking, ranking, rebuking, reeking, reinking, remaking, remarking, restocking, retaking, rethinking, revoking, reworking, risking, rocking, rollicking, sacking, seeking, shaking, sharking, shirking, shocking, shrieking, shrinking, shucking, sinking, sleepwalking, smacking, smirking, smoking, snaking, sneaking, soaking, socking, spacewalking, spanking, sparking, speaking, spiking, squawking, squeaking, stacking, staking, stalking, steelmaking, sticking, stinking, stockbroking, stocking, stoking, streaking, striking, stroking, sucking, sulking, tacking, taking, talking, tanking, tasking, thanking, ticking, tracking, trafficking, trekking, tricking, trucking, tucking, tweaking, undertaking, undocking, unlocking, unpacking, unthinking, viking, waking, walking, whacking, winking, woodworking, working, wracking, wreaking, wrecking, yanking. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-a-c-g-i-k-n-n-r-s" | |
-2 letters: canakins, cranking, rankings, snacking. | |
-3 letters: acrasin, agarics, anginas, arcking, arnicas, canakin, carinas, carking, casking, craning, narking, racings, racking, ranking, ransack, sacking, sacring, sangria, scaring, snaking, snaring. | |
-4 letters: acinar, agaric, agrias, angina, arcing, arnica, asking, cairns, caking, caning, cannas, carina, caring, casing, cigars, crania, cranks, gaskin, grains, kiangs, nairas, racing, raking, rasing, sangar, saning. | |
-5 letters: acari, acing, again, agars, agria, airns, angas, annas, araks, arias, cains, cairn, canna, carks, carns, cigar, crags, crank, gains, garni, ginks, girns, gnars, grain, grana, grans, grins, kains, kanas, karns, kiang, kinas, kings, kirns, knars, naans, naira, nanas, narcs, naric, naris, narks, nicks, racks, ragas, ragis, raias, rains, rakis, ranis, ranks, ricks, rings, rinks, sacra, saiga, sanga, saran, sarin, scrag, snack, snark, snick. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)52 61 6E 73 61 63 6B 69 6E 67 |
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| American Sign Language (origins from 1620-1817 in Italy and, especially, France) (references)
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| Semaphore (1791, in France) (references)
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| Braille (1829, in France) (references)
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Morse Code (1836) (references).-. .- -. ... .- -.-. -.- .. -. --. |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01010010 01100001 01101110 01110011 01100001 01100011 01101011 01101001 01101110 01100111 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)R a n s a c k i n g |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0052 0061 006E 0073 0061 0063 006B 0069 006E 0067 |
| British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)52678085676977758073 |
| 1. Definition 2. Synonyms 3. Usage: Commercial 4. Quotations: Fiction | 5. Quotations: Non-fiction 6. Usage Frequency 7. Translations: Modern 8. Rhymes | 9. Anagrams 10. Orthography 11. Bibliography |
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