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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.



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