Usually means: Searches thoroughly and steals items.
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General (9 matching dictionaries)
  1. ransacks: Merriam-Webster
  2. ransacks: Collins English Dictionary
  3. ransacks: Vocabulary.com
  4. Ransacks, ransacks: Wordnik
  5. ransacks: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  6. ransacks: Wiktionary
  7. ransacks: Dictionary.com
  8. ransacks: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  9. ransacks: TheFreeDictionary.com

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  1. ransacks: Legal dictionary

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Definitions from Wiktionary (ransack)

verb:  (transitive) To loot or pillage.
verb:  (transitive) 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.
verb:  (archaic) To examine carefully; to investigate.
verb:  To violate; to ravish; to deflower.
noun:  Eager search.
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