ransacking

noun

ransacking

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:

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