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Noun: ransacking  'ran`saking
  1. A thorough search for something (often causing disorder or confusion)
    - rummage
Verb: ransack  ransak
  1. Steal goods; take as spoils
    - plunder, despoil, loot, reave [archaic], strip, rifle, pillage, foray
     
  2. Search thoroughly
    - comb

Type of: hunt, hunting, search, take

Encyclopedia: Ransack