ransacked Meaning, Definition & Usage

verb steal goods; take as spoils
pillage; strip; despoil; plunder; foray; rifle; loot; reave; ransack.
- During the earthquake people looted the stores that were deserted by their owners
verb search thoroughly
comb; ransack.
- They combed the area for the missing child
adjective satellite wrongfully emptied or stripped of anything of value
plundered; pillaged; looted.
- the robbers left the looted train
- people returned to the plundered village