- looted, pillaged, plundered, ransacked - wrongfully emptied or stripped of anything of value; "the robbers left the looted train"; "people returned to the plundered village"
Antonym: full (indirect, via empty)
- 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
- comb, ransack - search thoroughly; "They combed the area for the missing child"
--2 is one way to search
Sample sentence:Derived form: noun ransacking1
The customs agents ransack the bags for drugs