To plunder; to pillage completely; to strip by plundering; as, to ransack a house or city. Their vow is made to ransack Troy.

To search thoroughly; to enter and search every place or part. It seems often to convey the sense of opening doors and parcels, and turning over things in search; as, to ransack files of papers. I ransack the several caverns.

To violate; to ravish; to deflower; as ransacked chastity.