ransacked; ransacking; ransacks
1
: to look through thoroughly in often a rough way
… he and 15 staff members watched agents ransack the office.—
Christian Caryl et al.
In desperation, I ransacked my refrigerator for something else to whip up.—
Dana Bowen
(figurative) Most novelists ransack their lives for that first novel; it might be called involuntary reporting.—
Tom Wolfe
2
: to search through and steal from in a forceful and damaging way : plunder
Thieves ransacked the house.
Louis XVI was persuaded to risk a navy far from its own shores and to ransack the French arsenals for arms and ammunition …—
C. P. Reynolds
ransacker
noun
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