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Ransack

Verb

Definitions

1.VerbTo search (a place, through things, etc.) thoroughly, especially when vigorous and leaving behind a state of disarray.
":; to ransack a house for valuables"
2.VerbTo search (a place, through things, etc.) thoroughly, especially when vigorous and leaving behind a state of disarray.
3.VerbTo search (someone or a place) thoroughly in order to steal something, especially when vigorous and leaving behind a state of disarray; hence, to rob (someone or a place); to plunder.
":; to ransack a house for valuables"
4.VerbTo search for and steal (something) as plunder.
5.VerbTo examine (someone or something) carefully; to investigate; also, to question (someone) thoroughly; to interrogate.
6.VerbTo look for or seek out (someone). To search (someone) for a thing. Synonym of penetrate (“to make way into the interior of (something); to pierce”); also, synonym of pervade (“to enter and spread through (something); to permeate”).
7.VerbTo look for or seek out (someone).
8.VerbTo search (someone) for a thing.
9.VerbSynonym of penetrate (“to make way into the interior of (something); to pierce”); also, synonym of pervade (“to enter and spread through (something); to permeate”).
10.VerbTo search thoroughly, especially when leaving behind a state of disarray. To search for and steal things.
11.VerbTo search thoroughly, especially when leaving behind a state of disarray.
12.VerbTo search for and steal things.
13.NounSynonym of ransacking (“an act of ransacking (“searching thoroughly (in order to steal); etc.”) someone or something; an eager search”).
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