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ransack

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ransack

verb

1 burglars had ransacked the place:

plunder, pillage, steal from, raid, rob, loot, rifle, sack, strip, denude;

ravage, maraud, lay waste, devastate;

literary despoil;

archaic reave;

rare depredate, spoliate.

2 she ransacked the wardrobe for something to wear:

rummage through, hunt through, search (through), rake through, scour, rifle, look all around, go through, comb, scrabble around in, poke around in, rummage around in, hunt around in, explore, turn inside out, turn over.