Today’s “Word of the Day” is ransack and it is a verb meaning “to go through a place to steal something and cause damage; plunder, steal from, loot, rob, devastate, despoil; search through and cause harm, rake through”.
Example Sentence: The Supreme Court on Wednesday condemned the illegal felling (cutting down) of over 6,000 trees to construct buildings, ostensibly (seemingly) for “eco-tourism” at the Jim Corbett National Park in Uttarakhand, as a “classic case” of nexus (link) between politicians and officials working to ransack the environment for short-term commercial ends (intentions/purposes).
This word is present in Trees in Corbett fell prey to greedy nexus, says Supreme Court and click here to read it.
Courtesy: The Hindu
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