ransack

ransack is a 7-letter English word with 7 senses as transitive verb, intransitive verb, noun, and verb in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: To search thoroughly; to search every place or part of; as, to ransack a house. Face value is 13 in Scrabble and 15 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.

7 letters · Scrabble 13 · Words With Friends 15 · 7 senses

Definitions

1. transitive verb. To search thoroughly; to search every place or part of; as, to ransack a house.
2. transitive verb. To plunder; to pillage completely.
3. transitive verb. To violate; to ravish; to defiour.
4. intransitive verb. To make a thorough search.
5. noun. The act of ransacking, or state of being ransacked; pillage.
6. verb. search thoroughly

   "They combed the area for the missing child"

   Synonyms: comb

7. verb. steal goods; take as spoils

   "During the earthquake people looted the stores that were deserted by their owners"

   Synonyms: despoil, foray, loot, pillage, plunder, reave, rifle, strip

Synonyms

comb, despoil, foray, loot, pillage, plunder, reave, rifle, strip

Common word forms

ransacks, ransacked, ransacker, ransacking

Words from these letters

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