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    ransack

    ransack - Dictionary definition and meaning for word ransack

    Definition
    (verb) steal goods; take as spoils
    Synonyms : despoil , foray , loot , pillage , plunder , reave , rifle , strip
    Example Sentence
    • During the earthquake people looted the stores that were deserted by their owners
    Definition
    (verb) search thoroughly
    Synonyms : comb
    Example Sentence
    • They combed the area for the missing child
   Mnemonics (Memory Aids) for ransack

this sounds like run seek...RUN+SEEK...so you must run to seek a house for your self.....you must search throughly about a house.

I ran through the sack (searched throughly) stil I didn't get my pen

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RUN+SACK...If you lose something and try to search thoroughly, you run your eyes through sack and try to find it out....

ranSACK so fill the sack with what ever you SEEK

run and SEEK the thing to pilfer

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