All ransack synonyms

verb ransack

• cast about — to make a mental or visual search
• kip — Also called kip-up [kip-uhp] /ˈkɪpˌʌp/ (Show IPA), kick-up. an acrobatic movement in which a person moves from a position lying on the back to a standing position with a vigorous swing of both legs coordinated with a launching push of the arms.
• depredate — to plunder or destroy; pillage
• wiretapping — an act or instance of tapping telephone or telegraph wires for evidence or other information.
• carry off — If you carry something off, you do it successfully.
• hunt — to chase or search for (game or other wild animals) for the purpose of catching or killing.
• weeded — a valueless plant growing wild, especially one that grows on cultivated ground to the exclusion or injury of the desired crop.
• forage — food for horses or cattle; fodder; provender.
• gun for — a weapon consisting of a metal tube, with mechanical attachments, from which projectiles are shot by the force of an explosive; a piece of ordnance.
• hulled — retaining the hull during threshing; having a persistent enclosing hull: hulled wheat.
• delve — If you delve into something, you try to discover new information about it.
• excorticate — (obsolete) To strip of bark or skin.
• kips — Also called kip-up [kip-uhp] /ˈkɪpˌʌp/ (Show IPA), kick-up. an acrobatic movement in which a person moves from a position lying on the back to a standing position with a vigorous swing of both legs coordinated with a launching push of the arms.
• listen in — to give attention with the ear; attend closely for the purpose of hearing; give ear.
• comb — A comb is a flat piece of plastic or metal with narrow pointed teeth along one side, which you use to tidy your hair.
• ferret — a narrow tape or ribbon, as of silk or cotton, used for binding, trimming, etc.
• loot — spoils or plunder taken by pillaging, as in war.
• hulling — the hollow, lowermost portion of a ship, floating partially submerged and supporting the remainder of the ship.
• fine-comb — to use a fine-tooth comb on.
• look down — the appearance of paper when inspected under reflected light.
• despoil — To despoil a place means to make it less attractive, valuable, or important by taking things away from it or by destroying it.
• make with — to bring into existence by shaping or changing material, combining parts, etc.: to make a dress; to make a channel; to make a work of art.
• impose on — to lay on or set as something to be borne, endured, obeyed, fulfilled, paid, etc.: to impose taxes.
• housebreak — to train (a pet) to excrete outdoors or in a specific place.
• dilapidate — to cause or allow (a building, automobile, etc.) to fall into a state of disrepair, as by misuse or neglect (often used passively): The house had been dilapidated by neglect.
• copping — the winding of yarn into a cap from a cone, bobbin, etc.
• lofted — a room, storage area, or the like within a sloping roof; attic; garret.
• look up and down — to search everywhere
• mousing — a wrapping of several turns of small stuff around the shank end of a hook.
• breached — the act or a result of breaking; break or rupture.
• forayed — a quick, sudden attack: The defenders made a foray outside the walls.
• look for — to turn one's eyes toward something or in some direction in order to see: He looked toward the western horizon and saw the returning planes.
• leave no stone unturned — the hard substance, formed of mineral matter, of which rocks consist.
• weeds — a valueless plant growing wild, especially one that grows on cultivated ground to the exclusion or injury of the desired crop.
• creamed — the fatty part of milk, which rises to the surface when the liquid is allowed to stand unless homogenized.
• grub — the thick-bodied, sluggish larva of several insects, as of a scarab beetle.
• creaming — the fatty part of milk, which rises to the surface when the liquid is allowed to stand unless homogenized.
• lay waste — to consume, spend, or employ uselessly or without adequate return; use to no avail or profit; squander: to waste money; to waste words.
• look over — the act of looking: a look of inquiry.
• housebreaking — to train (a pet) to excrete outdoors or in a specific place.
• ferreting — a domesticated, usually red-eyed, and albinic variety of the polecat, used in Europe for driving rabbits and rats from their burrows.
• lofting — a room, storage area, or the like within a sloping roof; attic; garret.
• weed — Thurlow [thur-loh] /ˈθɜr loʊ/ (Show IPA), 1797–1882, U.S. journalist and politician.
• defalcate — to misuse or misappropriate property or funds entrusted to one
• birddog — one of any of various breeds of dogs trained to hunt or retrieve birds.
• boweling — Anatomy. Usually, bowels. the intestine. a part of the intestine.
• breaching — the act or a result of breaking; break or rupture.