ransack : Dictionary / Wörterbuch (BEOLINGUS, TU Chemnitz)

English Dictionary: ransack	by the DICT Development Group
4 results for ransack
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
ransack v steal goods; take as spoils; "During the earthquake people looted the stores that were deserted by their owners" Synonym(s): plunder, despoil, loot, reave, strip, rifle, ransack, pillage, foray search thoroughly; "They combed the area for the missing child" Synonym(s): comb, ransack
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Ransack \Ran"sack\, v. i. To make a thorough search. To ransack in the tas [heap] of bodies dead. --Chaucer.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Ransack \Ran"sack\, n. The act of ransacking, or state of being ransacked; pillage. [R.] Even your father's house Shall not be free fromransack. --J. Webster.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Ransack \Ran"sack\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Ransacked}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Ransacking}.] [OE. ransaken, Icel, rannsaka to explore, examine; rann a house (akin to Goth. razn house, AS. r[91]sn plank, beam) + the root of s[91]kja to seek, akin to E. seek. See {Seek}, and cf. {Rest} repose.] 1. To search thoroughly; to search every place or part of; as, to ransack a house. To ransack every corner of their . . . hearts. --South. 2. To plunder; to pillage completely. Their vow is made To ransack Troy. --Shak. 3. To violate; to ravish; to defiour. [Obs.] Rich spoil of ransacked chastity. --Spenser.