ransack
- Examples
Someone, not me, has ransacked it. | Alguien, no yo. Es lo que digo. |
In many parts of the world, industrial fishing has ransacked the stocks, leaving fishing nets empty. | En numerosas zonas del planeta, la pesca industrial hizo daños considerables, dejando las redes de los pescadores desesperadamente vacías. |
It has ransacked their economies, chained people's livelihood to imperialism, and driven people from their homes to this country. | Ha saqueado sus economías, encadenado la vida de sus pueblos a su sistema y los ha sacado de su país. Cuando llegan aquí, los explota salvajemente. |
The U.S. has ransacked Nigeria for its oil and left much of its once fertile delta an environmental deathscape of shriveled trees, oil spills and fires. | Estados Unidos ha saqueado Nigeria por su petróleo y ha transformado gran parte de su delta otrora fértil en un infierno ambiental de árboles moribundos, derrames e incendios de petróleo. |
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