ransack Definition

ransack
verb ransacked, ransacking

1. To search (eg a house) thoroughly and often roughly.

Thesaurus: search, comb, rifle, rummage, scour, strip.
2. To rob or plunder.

Thesaurus: maraud, pillage, ravage, plunder, loot, gut, despoil, raid, sack, depredate.

Derivative: ransacker
noun

Etymology: 13c: from Norse rannsaka, from rann house + sœkja to seek.