Ransack

Verb

 * 1)  To loot or pillage. See also sack.
 * 2)  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.
 * 3)  To examine carefully; to investigate.
 * 4) *1485, Thomas Malory, Le Morte Darthur, Book XIII:
 * Than com there an olde monke whych somtyme had bene a knyght, and behylde Sir Melyas; and anone he ransaked hym, and than he seyde unto Sir Galahad, ‘I shall heale hym of hys play, by the grace of God, within the terme of seven wykes.’

Thesaurus
beat, burglarize, burgle, comb, depredate, despoil, examine, explore, fleece, forage, foray, freeboot, grub, gut, knock off, knock over, look all over, look everywhere, loot, maraud, pillage, plunder, prey on, raid, rake, ravage, raven, ravish, reive, relieve, rifle, rob, rummage, sack, scour, scrutinize, search, search high heaven, shake, shake down, spoil, spoliate, stick up, strip, sweep, toss, turn inside out, turn upside down

Etymology
From ransaken:, from  rannsakka:, from rann: + saka:; probably influenced by sack

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 * Swedish: rannsaka