ransack

transitive verb

To search through (something) thoroughly and often roughly.

transitive verb

To go through (a place) stealing valuables and causing disarray; pillage.

noun

Detailed search or inquisition; careful investigation.

noun

A ransacking; search for plunder; pillage; sack.

To search thoroughly; seek carefully in all parts of; explore, point by point, for what is desired; overhaul in detail.

To sack; pillage completely; strip by plundering.

To obtain by ransacking or pillage; seize upon; carry off; ravish.

To violate; deflower: as, “ransackt chastity,”

To make penetrating search or inquisition; pry; rummage.

intransitive verb

To make a thorough search.