What is "ransacks"

Usage examples of "ransacks".

Now he sends me a disk with what is surely going to be some monster DNA sequences, and I don't mean just in terms of size, and some clippings of God knows what to analyze, while somebody with clout who's a real pro ransacks my town house and somebody else who looks like a freak-show Bogart stalks me.

The man who raises the holy bottle to his lips, the criminal who kneels in the marketplace, the innocent one who discovers that all corpses stink, the madman who dances with lightning in his hands, the friar who lifts his skirts to pee over the world, the fanatic who ransacks libraries in order to find the Word – all these are fused in me, all these make my confusion, my ecstasy.