The verb ransack has 2 senses (first 2 from tagged texts)
1. (3) plunder, despoil, loot, reave, strip, rifle, ransack, pillage, foray -- (steal goods; take as spoils; "During the earthquake people looted the stores that were deserted by their owners")
2. (3) comb, ransack -- (search thoroughly; "They combed the area for the missing child")