ransack

Meanings

Verb

• To loot or pillage. See also sack.
• To make a vigorous and thorough search of (a place, person) with a view to stealing something, especially when leaving behind a state of disarray.
• To examine carefully; to investigate.
• To violate; to ravish; to deflower.

Noun

• Eager search.

Origin

• From Middle English ransaken, from Old Norse rannsaka, from rann + saka; probably influenced by sack.