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A thorough search for something (often causing disorder or confusion)
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rummage
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Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. 1 (context obsolete English) commotion; disturbance. 2 A thorough search, usually resulting in disorder. 3 An unorganized collection of miscellaneous objects; a jumble. 4 (context nautical English) A place or room for the stowage of cargo in a ship; ...
WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
v. search haphazardly; "We rummaged through the drawers"
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Rummage \Rum"mage\, v. i. To search a place narrowly. I have often rummaged for old books in Little Britain and Duck Lane. --Swift. [His house] was haunted with a jolly ghost, that . . . . . . rummaged like a rat. --Tennyson.
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
I. verb COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES rummage sale rummage/rifle through drawers (= search in them by moving things around in an untidy way ) ▪ Someone had been in my bedroom and rummaged through my drawers. COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS ■ NOUN drawer ▪ Some ...
Usage examples of rummage.
Gator stood by the half-visible airman, talking to her as she rummaged around in the guts of the hydraulics system, electrical lines, and avionics that controlled the Tomcat.
She rummaged in a box that sat on a nearby table and produced a booklike tablet of parchment sheets stitched together.
The bookseller led the way back to his desk, where he rummaged among the litter and finally found a scrap of paper on which he had written: Being myself animated by feelings of affection toward my fellowmen, I am saddened by the modern system of advertising.
Le Duc opened my trunk, and leaving her to rummage in it he came to shave me, and to do my hair.
He sat back, rummaged around in his shirt pocket until he found another cigarillo, then stuck it in his mouth and lit it.
Turning around, he sat down on the bed and rummaged around in his pocket until he found a cigarillo and a match.
But then she rummaged in her purse and pulled out her datacom, tapped a couple of keys, and handed him the slim device.
She threw her notebook and pen on the dinette, then opened the overhead cabinet to rummage through her clothes.
Gray lifted the cushion from the dinette bench, rummaged through the storage bin below, then pulled out the paperback.
Lily advised against her better judgment, but Alden was so happily energized at the moment when he had been sloping around the house so dispiritedly for weeks even as he acted at keeping busy making plans and rummaging in the barn for agrarian implements to polish and sharpen and balance, that Lily could not bring herself to discourage him now.
I rummaged and rooted and pried, feeling as Flinders Petrie may have felt when he thrust his first torch into his first Egyptian burial chamber.
They rummaged through the lumber pile in the great circular room as Myles and Gascoyne had done, and at last, tired out, they ascended to the airy chapel, and there sat cooling themselves in the rustling freshness of the breeze that came blowing briskly in through the arched windows.
They rummaged the near-by woods for better stones, while Milt cut a post of the rot-resisting hackmatack and hewed it square.
He rummaged again and set out a tin of oatcakes, a little kebbuck of cheese, a loaf of bread.
McKelvie heard him out, told him to try to hold the judge for ten minutes, dashed over to his room at the Malaspina Hotel, and rummaged in his dressing case, looking for a double labret a lip ornament worn at one time by the women of the Queen Charlotte Islands.