What is the meaning of ransacked?

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verb

Steal goods; take as spoils.
- usage: "During the earthquake people looted the stores that were deserted by their owners"
- synonyms: plunder, despoil, loot, reave, strip, rifle, ransack, pillage, foray
Search thoroughly.
- usage: "They combed the area for the missing child"
- synonyms: comb, ransack

adjective

Wrongfully emptied or stripped of anything of value.
- usage: "the robbers left the looted train"; "people returned to the plundered village"
- synonyms: looted, pillaged, plundered

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