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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Ransack \Ran"sack\, verb (used without an object) To make a thorough search.
To ransack in the tas [heap] of bodies dead. --Chaucer.
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Ransack \Ran"sack\ (r[a^]n"s[a^]k), verb (used with an object) [imp. & p. p. {Ransacked} (-s[a^]kt); p. pr. & vb. n. {Ransacking}.] [OE. ransaken, Icel. rannsaka to explore, examine; rann a house (akin to Goth. razn house, AS. r[ae]sn plank, beam) + the root of s[ae]kja to seek, akin to E. seek. See {Seek}, and cf. {Rest} repose.]
1. To search thoroughly; to search every place or part of; as, to ransack a house.
To ransack every corner of their . . . hearts. --South.
2. To plunder; to pillage completely.
Their vow is made To ransack Troy. --Shak.
3. To violate; to ravish; to defiour. [Obs.]
Rich spoil of ransacked chastity. --Spenser.
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Ransack \Ran"sack\, noun The act of ransacking, or state of being ransacked; pillage. [R.]
Even your father's house Shall not be free from ransack. --J. Webster.
From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:
ransack
verb
1: steal goods; take as spoils; "During the earthquake people looted the stores that were deserted by their owners" [syn: {plunder}, {despoil}, {loot}, {reave}, {strip}, {rifle}, {pillage}, {foray}]
2: search thoroughly; "They combed the area for the missing child" [syn: {comb}]
From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:
48 Moby Thesaurus words for "ransack": beat, burglarize, burgle, comb, depredate, despoil, examine, explore, fleece, forage, foray, freeboot, grub, gut, knock off, knock over, look all over, look everywhere, loot, maraud, pillage, plunder, prey on, raid, rake, ravage, raven, ravish, reive, relieve, rifle, rob, rummage, sack, scour, scrutinize, search, search high heaven, shake, shake down, spoil, spoliate, stick up, strip, sweep, toss, turn inside out, turn upside down
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