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1. Wrongfully emptied or stripped of anything of value
   "the robbers left the ransacked train"
   - looted, pillaged, plundered

1. Steal goods; take as spoils
   "During the earthquake people ransacked the stores that were deserted by their owners"
   - plunder, despoil, loot, reave [archaic], strip, rifle, pillage, foray
    
2. Search thoroughly
   "They ransacked the area for the missing child"
   - comb

See also: empty, ransacking

Type of: search, take

Encyclopedia: Ransack