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ransackverb to search through with the intent of committing robberyit was clear that the thieves who had ransacked the museum were professionals—they bypassed most of the exhibits and went straight for the vaults despoil, loot, maraud, pillage, plunder, sack break in, burglarize, rip off, steal (from)comb, hunt, rake, rifle, rummageharry, raidravish to look through (as a place) carefully or thoroughly in an effort to find or discover somethingI've ransacked the whole house for that book you lent me and it's nowhere to be found comb, dig (through), dredge, hunt (through), rake, rifle, rummage, scour, search, sort (through), troll frisk, pat down, shake downaudit, check (out), examine, inspect, investigate, review, scan, scrutinize, surveyascertain, descry, detect, determine, discover, ferret (out), find, find out, get, hit (on or upon), learn, locate, run down, scare up, track (down)grub (about), poke (around)explore, probe, prospect, skirmish, snoopbrowse, glance (over), look overperuse, study hideabandon, loseignore, neglect in the 13th century |