'Ransack' definitions:

Definition of 'ransack'

From: WordNet
verb
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, ransack, pillage, foray]
verb
Search thoroughly; "They combed the area for the missing child" [syn: comb, ransack]

Definition of 'Ransack'

From: GCIDE
  • Ransack \Ran"sack\, v. i. To make a thorough search. [1913 Webster]
  • To ransack in the tas [heap] of bodies dead. --Chaucer. [1913 Webster]

Definition of 'Ransack'

From: GCIDE
  • Ransack \Ran"sack\, n. The act of ransacking, or state of being ransacked; pillage. [R.] [1913 Webster]
  • Even your father's house Shall not be free from ransack. --J. Webster. [1913 Webster]

Definition of 'Ransack'

From: GCIDE
  • Ransack \Ran"sack\ (r[a^]n"s[a^]k), v. t. [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. [1913 Webster]
  • To ransack every corner of their . . . hearts. --South. [1913 Webster]
  • 2. To plunder; to pillage completely. [1913 Webster]
  • Their vow is made To ransack Troy. --Shak. [1913 Webster]
  • 3. To violate; to ravish; to defiour. [Obs.] [1913 Webster]
  • Rich spoil of ransacked chastity. --Spenser. [1913 Webster]

Synonyms of 'ransack'

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Words containing 'Ransack'