EGAVE

ransack

About 0.09 uses per million words.

Meaning

  1. verb To search (a place, through things, etc.) thoroughly, especially when vigorous and leaving behind a state of disarray.
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  2. verb To search (a place, through things, etc.) thoroughly, especially when vigorous and leaving behind a state of disarray.
  3. verb To search (someone or a place) thoroughly in order to steal something, especially when vigorous and leaving behind a state of disarray; hence, to rob (someone or a place); to plunder.
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  4. verb To search for and steal (something) as plunder.
  5. verb To examine (someone or something) carefully; to investigate; also, to question (someone) thoroughly; to interrogate.
  6. verb To look for or seek out (someone). To search (someone) for a thing. Synonym of penetrate (“to make way into the interior of (something); to pierce”); also, synonym of pervade (“to enter and spread through (something); to permeate”).
  7. verb To look for or seek out (someone).
  8. verb To search (someone) for a thing.

Similar words

reave despoil plunder pillage foray rifle comb strip loot inspect

Often followed by

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Word family

ransacked ransacker ransackers ransacking ransacks

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