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ransacking

verb

gerund, participle, present present participle and gerund of ransack

noun ransackings

An act of ransacking (“searching thoroughly (in order to steal); etc.”) someone or something; an eager search. Lefebvre never saw any of these battles and ransackings, but one wonders what he would have made of them.
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@misc{ransacking_2026,
  title = {ransacking},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/ransacking},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}