transitive verb. To search through (something) thoroughly and often roughly.

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

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.

noun. Detailed search or inquisition; careful investigation.

noun. A ransacking; search for plunder; pillage; sack.

intransitive verb. To make a thorough search.

noun. The act of ransacking, or state of being ransacked; pillage.

transitive verb. To search thoroughly; to search every place or part of.

transitive verb. To plunder; to pillage completely.

transitive verb. To violate; to ravish; to defiour.

verb. To loot or pillage. See also sack.

verb. 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.

verb. To examine carefully; to investigate.

verb. steal goods; take as spoils

verb. search thoroughly

"It is true, Hawley said, that TSA agents open the luggage of all selectees (the word "ransack" seems another case of the clerk editorializing)."

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