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rannsaka
Old Norse · medieval
"to search a house thoroughly"
literally to search a house, from rann (house) and saka (to search)
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ransack
English · 1200s
"to search a place thoroughly, often causing damage"
settled as the English word for searching a place thoroughly, often destructively
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