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ransack - Word of the Day - Fri Dec 16, 2022

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ransack - (verb) - 1: to look through thoroughly in often a rough way; 2: to search through and steal from in a forceful and damaging way: plunder

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Goons from different alphabet entities regularly intimidate citizens by ransacking their homes for using wrongspeak.

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drpaladin

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From Old Norse, rannsaka means house search. In modern Swedish, it means to investigate or interrogate.

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Bill W

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And I always thought it was a combination of the meanings of the words 'ran' and 'sack'.  To run through and take whatever you could get your hands on.  

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JamesSavik

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It's frightening to watch moms and suburban housewives ransack the stores in these last weeks before Christmas.

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1 hour ago, JamesSavik said:

It's frightening to watch moms and suburban housewives ransack the stores in these last weeks before Christmas.

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or ransacking grocery stores before any predicted weather emergency 

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drpaladin

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1 hour ago, JamesSavik said:

It's frightening to watch moms and suburban housewives ransack the stores in these last weeks before Christmas.

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I hope you know to stay out of their path when they are in the throes of a shopping frenzy.

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