Ransack /(răn"săk)/

imp. & p. p. Ransacked; p. pr. & vb. n. Ransacking

1. To search thoroughly; to search every place or part of; as, to ransack a house.

   To ransack every corner of their . . . hearts.

2. To plunder; to pillage completely.

   Their vow is made To ransack Troy.

3. To violate; to ravish; to defiour. [Obs.]

   Rich spoil of ransacked chastity.

1. To make a thorough search.

   To ransack in the tas [heap] of bodies dead.

1. The act of ransacking, or state of being ransacked; pillage. [R.]

   Even your father's house Shall not be free from ransack.