vt. 到处搜索, 遍寻, 掠夺, 洗劫

[法] 洗劫, 抢劫, 掠夺

Ransack \Ran"sack\, v. i.
To make a thorough search.

To ransack in the tas [heap] of bodies dead. --Chaucer.


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.

To ransack every corner of their . . . hearts.
--South.

2. To plunder; to pillage completely.

Their vow is made
To ransack Troy. --Shak.

3. To violate; to ravish; to defiour. [Obs.]

Rich spoil of ransacked chastity. --Spenser.


Ransack \Ran"sack\, n.
The act of ransacking, or state of being ransacked; pillage.
[R.]

Even your father's house
Shall not be free from ransack. --J. Webster.