ransacked Meaning, Definition & Usage

1. verb steal goods; take as spoils
   pillage; strip; despoil; plunder; foray; rifle; loot; reave; ransack.
   
   • During the earthquake people looted the stores that were deserted by their owners
2. verb search thoroughly
   comb; ransack.
   
   • They combed the area for the missing child
3. adjective satellite wrongfully emptied or stripped of anything of value
   plundered; pillaged; looted.
   
   • the robbers left the looted train
   • people returned to the plundered village

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