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Ransack

This word is acceptable for play in the US & UK dictionaries that are being used in the following games:

v. To search or examine thoroughly.

v. To search carefully for plunder; pillage.

v. To loot or pillage. See also sack.

v. 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.

v. To examine carefully; to investigate.

v. To search thoroughly; to search every place or part of.

v. To plunder; to pillage completely.

v. To violate; to ravish; to defiour.

verb-intransitive. To make a thorough search.

n. The act of ransacking, or state of being ransacked; 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.

n. Detailed search or inquisition; careful investigation.

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

v. steal goods; take as spoils

v. 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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Words that are more generic or abstract

Words with the same meaning

plunder violate ravish defiour pillage