ransack

IPA: rˈænsæk

(transitive) To loot or pillage. See also sack.
(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.
(archaic) To examine carefully; to investigate.
To violate; to ravish; to deflower.

Examples of "ransack" in Sentences

They ransack everything from 1960s handclaps to 1950s-style twangs.
Patrician vicissitudes run ransack with benign alignments of the brain.
I-9 audit, asking for records instead of what he described as a "ransack" of the business, which started at 8: 30 a.m.
It is true, Hawley said, that TSA agents open the luggage of all selectees (the word "ransack" seems another case of the clerk editorializing).
Throw petrol over a policeman, shout for people to be killed, ransack shops, launch everything you can lift at the police = no problem. on January 12, 2009 at 6: 49 pm | Reply Jack Straw
I said “back in the days of the stress tests,” that particular epoch, a time when the banks were tied and gagged and on their knees, and we, the American people, had an opportunity to ransack THEIR house.
I'm pretty sure this would impact this problem in a good way, cause if I was trying to ransack a 200 'tanker and I saw armed men keeping watch, I'll go elsewhere in my fishing boat and look for easier prey.
It is famously one of the most troubling poems in the Psalter, giving conniptions to theologians, who ransack the life of David for an enemy vile enough to deserve a song so hard to hear as God's inspired word.