vi to make a thorough search.
2. ransack ·vt to plunder; to pillage completely.
3. ransack ·noun the act of ransacking, or state of being ransacked; pillage.
4. ransack ·vt to search thoroughly; to search every place or part of; as, to ransack a house.
5. ransack ·vt to violate; to ravish; to defiour.