ransacking

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

Noun

  1. 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. - 2013, Andrew Merrifield, Henri Lefebvre: A Critical Introduction, page 58:

    Synonyms: ransack

Forms

ransackings

Verb

  1. present participle and gerund of ransack