Ransack
Part of speech: verb
Definition: To loot or pillage. See also sack. To make a vigorous and thorough search or examination of a location or thing, usually leaving behind a state of disarray.
Strip
Part of speech: noun
Definition: a long, thin piece of a bigger itema series of drawings, a comic stripa landing stripa street with multiple shopping or entertainment possibilitiesThe fencing area, roughly 14 meters by 2 meters.(UK football) the uniform of a football team, or the same worn by supporters.shortened form of striptease.
Part of speech: verb
Definition: To remove or take away.To take off clothing.To do a striptease.To completely take away, to plunder.To remove the threads from a screw or the teeth from a gear.To remove color from hair, cloth, etc. to prepare it to receive new color.To remove all cards of a particular suit from another player. (See also, strip-squeeze.)To empty (tubing) by applying pressure to the outside of (the tubing) and moving that pressure along (the tubing).
Example sentence: The rule of law means that law and justice are upheld by an independent judiciary. The judgments of the European Court of Justice have to be respected by all. To undermine them, or to undermine the independence of national courts, is to strip citizens of their fundamental rights. The rule of law is not optional in the European Union. It is a must.