ransacked
ran sakt
- v steal goods; take as spoils
- v search thoroughly
- s wrongfully emptied or stripped of anything of value
- Then he smartly ransacked the tropes of every hip lyricist from Bertolt Brecht to the Beat Generation poets Allen Ginsberg and Lawrence Ferlinghetti.
- In addition to the scores of cars burned and shops ransacked by radical youths, the damage in Athens extends to banks.
- Patrick Gardere, whose showroom was ransacked Monday, fears that store owners may then take things into their own hands.