ransack
verb
[ ˈransak ]
• go through (a place) stealing things and causing damage.
• "burglars ransacked her home"
Similar:
plunder,
pillage,
steal from,
raid,
rob,
loot,
rifle,
sack,
strip,
denude,
ravage,
maraud,
lay waste,
devastate,
despoil,
reave,
depredate,
spoliate,
Origin:
Middle English: from Old Norse rannsaka, from rann ‘house’ + a second element related to sœkja ‘seek’.
