Definition of "ransack" in English

verb

1. To search (a place, through things, etc.) thoroughly, especially when vigorous and leaving behind a state of disarray.

2. To search (someone or a place) thoroughly in order to steal something, especially when vigorous and leaving behind a state of disarray; hence, to rob (someone or a place); to plunder.

   • to ransack a house for valuables

3. To search for and steal (something) as plunder.

4. To examine (someone or something) carefully; to investigate; also, to question (someone) thoroughly; to interrogate.

5. To look for or seek out (someone).

6. To search (someone) for a thing.

7. Synonym of penetrate (“to make way into the interior of (something); to pierce”); also, synonym of pervade (“to enter and spread through (something); to permeate”).

8. To search thoroughly, especially when leaving behind a state of disarray.

9. To search for and steal things.

noun

1. Synonym of ransacking (“an act of ransacking (“searching thoroughly (in order to steal); etc.”) someone or something; an eager search”).