Ransacking: alternatives and connections

To search for or follow after, as game or wild animals; to chase; to pursue for the purpose of catching or killing; to follow with dogs or guns for s…

Open English WordNet identifies the related term as a broader lexical category for at least one sense.

of Hunt

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To look over or through, for the purpose of finding something; to examine; to explore; as, to search the city.

Open English WordNet identifies the related term as a broader lexical category for at least one sense.

To search thoroughly; to search every place or part of; as, to ransack a house.

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To search thoroughly; to search every place or part of; as, to ransack a house.

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A place or room for the stowage of cargo in a ship; also, the act of stowing cargo; the pulling and moving about of packages incident to close stowag…

Open English WordNet places these words in at least one shared synset. They share a lexicalised sense, but context, register and collocation should still be checked before substitution.