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Thesaurus: ransack

To search thoroughly; to search every place or part of; as, to ransack a house.

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  1. v. t. To search thoroughly; to search every place or part of; as, to ransack a house.
  2. v. t. To plunder; to pillage completely.
  3. v. t. To violate; to ravish; to defiour.
  4. v. i. To make a thorough search.
  5. n. The act of ransacking, or state of being ransacked; pillage.
  6. v. steal goods; take as spoils
  7. v. search thoroughly
  8. v:100 v steal goods; take as spoils v search thoroughly