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Rummage

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Noun

1. rummage

a jumble of things to be given away

2. ransacking, rummage

a thorough search for something (often causing disorder or confusion)

Example Sentences:
'he gave the attic a good rummage but couldn't find his skis'

Verb

3. rummage

search haphazardly

Example Sentences:
'We rummaged through the drawers'

WordNet Lexical Database for English. Princeton University. 2010.

Rummage

see synonyms of rummage
verb
1. (when intr, often foll by through)
to search (through) while looking for something, often causing disorder or confusion
noun
2. 
an act of rummaging
3. 
a jumble of articles
4. obsolete
confusion or bustle

Collins English Dictionary. Copyright © HarperCollins Publishers

Rummage

see synonyms of rummage
noun
1. 
miscellaneous articles; odds and ends
2. 
a rummaging, or thorough search
verb transitiveWord forms: ˈrummaged or ˈrummaging
3. 
to search through (a place, receptacle, etc.) thoroughly, esp. by moving the contents about, turning them over, etc.; ransack
4. 
to get, find, or turn up by or as by searching thoroughly
with up or out
verb intransitive
5. 
to search diligently, now sometimes haphazardly, as through the contents of a receptacle

Webster’s New World College Dictionary, 4th Edition. Copyright © 2010 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. All rights reserved.

Rummage

see synonyms of rummage
v. rum·maged, rum·mag·ing, rum·mag·es
v.tr.
1. To search thoroughly by handling, turning over, or disarranging the contents of.
2. To discover by searching thoroughly.
v.intr.
To make an energetic, usually hasty search.
n.
1. A thorough search among a number of things.
2. A confusion of miscellaneous articles.

The American Heritage ® Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth Edition copyright ©2018 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.

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