Verb ransack has 2 senses
  1. 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"
    --1 is one way to take
    Sample sentence:
    Somebody ----s something
  2. comb, ransack - search thoroughly; "They combed the area for the missing child"
    --2 is one way to search
    Derived form: noun ransacking1
    Sample sentence:
    The customs agents ransack the bags for drugs
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