ransack

The Concise Oxford Dictionary of English Etymology | 1996 | 253 words | Copyright

ransack †search (a person); search (a place), examine thoroughly XIII; search (a place) with intent to rob, plunder XIV. — ON. rannsaka search for stolen goods, f. rann house (= OE. ærn) + -saka, rel. by gradation to sœkja SEEK.

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