ransack

动词 ransack:

1. steal goods; take as spoils
   同义词：plunder, despoil, loot, reave, strip, rifle, pillage, foray
2. search thoroughly
   同义词：comb

1. The room had been thoroughly ransacked and the contents of drawers and cupboards lay in confusion on the floor.
   房间已被彻底洗劫过，抽屉和橱柜里的东西都乱七八糟地摊在地板上。
2. Burglars ransacked the office of a91-year-old physician who is one of the last private doctors left in crime-ravaged Harlem, police said yesterday.
   警方昨天说，小偷把九十一岁内科医生的诊所洗劫一空。在罪犯横行的哈莱姆区，诊所已所剩无几。

ran.sack

v.tr.（及物动词）
ran.sacked,ran.sack.ing,ran.sacks
To search or examine thoroughly.
彻底搜查：彻底仔细地搜寻或检查
To search carefully for plunder; pillage.
洗劫：仔细搜查以进行抢劫；劫掠

来源：
Middle English ransaken
中古英语 ransaken
from Old Norse rannsaka
源自 古斯堪的纳维亚语 rannsaka
rann [house]
rann [房子]
*saka [to search, seek] * see s3g-
*saka [搜寻，寻找] *参见 s3g-

【引伸】
ran.sack.er
n.（名词）