| ransack | (verb) search thoroughly | Synonyms: comb |
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| (verb) steal goods; take as spoils | Synonyms: despoil, foray, loot, pillage, plunder, reave, rifle, strip |
| ransacked | (adjective) wrongfully emptied or stripped of anything of value | Synonyms: looted, pillaged, plundered |
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| ransacking | (noun) a thorough search for something (often causing disorder or confusion) | Synonyms: rummage |
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| ransom | (noun) the act of freeing from captivity or punishment | - |
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| (noun) payment for the release of someone | - |
| (noun) money demanded for the return of a captured person | Synonyms: ransom money |
| (verb) exchange or buy back for money; under threat | Synonyms: redeem |
| ransomed | (adjective) reclaimed by payment of a ransom | - |
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| (adjective) saved from the bondage of sin | Synonyms: redeemed |
| ransomware | (noun) malicious software that makes a computer unusable unless a payment is made to the attacker | - |
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