RANSACK

v. n.

5 definitions — Webster’s Dictionary (1828)

1.
v.

To search thoroughly; to search every place or part of; as, to ransack a house. To ransack every corner of their . . . hearts. South.

2.
v.

To plunder; to pillage completely. Their vow is made To ransack Troy. Shak.

3.
v.

To violate; to ravish; to defiour. [Obs.] Rich spoil of ransacked chastity. Spenser.

4.
v.

To make a thorough search. To ransack in the tas [heap] of bodies dead. Chaucer.

5.
n.

The act of ransacking, or state of being ransacked; pillage. [R.] Even your father's house Shall not be free fromransack. J. Webster.

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