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.
The owners of a supermarket in the capital's Moreno suburb retaliated and killed two looters when they opened fire Wednesday on a crowd trying to ransack their shop.
"We don't want anarchists turned loose after we pull out to ransack, loot, kidnap and torture our partisans," Geagea said.