Usually means: Search thoroughly and steal things.
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  1. ransack: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. ransack: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. ransack: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. ransack: Collins English Dictionary
  5. ransack: Vocabulary.com
  6. Ransack, ransack: Wordnik
  7. ransack: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. ransack: Wiktionary
  9. ransack: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. ransack: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. ransack: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. Ransack, ransack: Dictionary.com
  13. ransack: Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. ransack: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  15. Ransack: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  16. Ransack: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  17. ransack: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  18. ransack: Rhymezone
  19. Ransack: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  20. ransack: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  21. ransack: Free Dictionary
  22. ransack: Mnemonic Dictionary
  23. ransack: Dictionary/thesaurus

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Ransack (Transformers), ransack: Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. ransack: Encyclopedia

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Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. ransack: Urban Dictionary

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Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
verb:  (transitive) To loot or pillage.
verb:  (transitive) 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:  (archaic) To examine carefully; to investigate.
verb:  To violate; to ravish; to deflower.
noun:  Eager search.

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