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ransack
has definitions from the field of criminal law
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[ verb ] (criminal law) steal goods; take as spoils
Examples "During the earthquake people looted the stores that were deserted by their owners" Used in print (S. J. Perelman, The Rising Gorge. New York:...)Hastening to the attic , the temperature of_which was easily hotter than the Gold_Coast , you proceeded to mask the windows with a fancy wool coverlet , some khaki pants , and the_like , and to ransack the innumerable boxes and barrels stored there . |
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[ verb ] search thoroughly
Synonyms Examples "They combed the area for the missing child" Used in print (Arthur Miller, "The Prophecy," in The Best...)Everywhere else his ideas lay or hung in visible form : his models , drawings , ten foot canvases in monochromes from his painting days , and underfoot a windfall of broken-backed books that looked as_though their insides had been ransacked by a maniac . Related terms |
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