ransack

1. (transitive) To loot or pillage.Examples: "Their vow is made / To ransack Troy."; "Hellen Gravely: 'You ransacked my hotel, captured my staff with that strange vacuum of yours... And to top it all off, you catnapped my sweetie, my little darling... My precious Polterkitty!'"Synonyms: sacktransitive

2. (transitive) To make a vigorous and thorough search of (a place, person) with a view to stealing something, especially when leaving behind a state of disarray.Examples: "to ransack a house for valuables"; "He ransacked his memory for a clew to that haunting familiarity. He tried to make himself believe it was just a crazy, senseless notion. But it persisted; he could not shake it off."; "to ransack every corner of their[…]hearts"transitive

3. (archaic) To examine carefully; to investigate.Examples: "Thenne came there an olde monke whiche somtyme had ben a knyghte & behelde syre Melyas / And anone he ransakyd hym / & thenne he saide vnto syr Galahad I shal hele hym of this woūde by the grace of god within the terme of seuen wekes"archaic