{UAH} WORD OF THE DAY August 7, 2019-------------ransack

WORD OF THE DAY August 7, 2019

ransack    verb | RAN-sak   Definition   1 : to look through thoroughly in often a rough way    2 : to search through and steal from in a forceful and damaging way : plunder   Scroll down for more about ransack     TRENDING NOW: inoculum purview exculpate condemn SEE ALL      PEOPLE ARE READING   The Word History of 'Swag'     The Sometimes Subtle Difference Between 'Conflate' and 'Equate'   The Good, The Bad, & The Semantically Imprecise - 8/2/19     Following 'Suit' from the Court to the Closet       WORD GAMES AND QUIZZES: WEEKLY CHALLENGE     Obscure Shapes   Surprisingly specific words for shapes.     PLAY NOW     Nailed this quiz? We have plenty more to try! TAKE ME THERE        Did You Know?   Ransack carries the image of a house being roughly disarranged, as might happen when you are frantically searching for something. This is appropriate given the word's origin. Ransack derives, via Middle English ransaken, from Old Norse rannsaka; the rann in rannsaka means "house." The second half of rannsaka is related to an Old English word, sēcan, meaning "to seek." But our modern use of the word isn't restricted to houses. You can ransack a drawer, a suitcase, or even the contents of a book (for information). A now-obsolete frequentative form of ransack, ransackle, gave us our adjective ramshackle.     Examples of RANSACK   The kids had ransacked the cabinets looking for snacks, leaving not a chip or cracker uneaten.   "Also in the spring, I bring the bird feeders inside the house to avoid tempting bears into our yard…. A resident bear only had to ransack my feeders once for me to learn my lesson." — **Aislinn Sarnacki**, The Bangor (Maine) Daily News, 6 June 2019   Name That Synonym   Fill in the blanks to complete a synonym of ransack: r _ _ m _ ge.   VIEW THE ANSWER              MORE WORD FUN:       WORD GAMES            TRENDING NOW            WORDS AT PLAY      FOLLOW US:

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