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rummage Meaning, Definition, Pronunciation, Grammar & Synonyms❤️

0 to search for something by moving things around carelessly and looking into, under, and behind them:
- She rummaged in/through all the drawers, looking for a pen.
1 a search for something that involves moving things around carelessly and looking into, under, and behind them:
- I had a rummage around/about (the house), but I couldn't find my certificate anywhere.
- Her mother was away, and he was bored, so he had a nosy rummage in her desk.
2 to search for something by moving things around without care and looking into, under, and behind them:
- She rummaged through the drawer, looking for a pen.

A quick rummage around in the pile on my desk produced a dogeared contract.
I like a good old rummage in a vintage store.
If you're lucky enough to have a well-dressed grandma, I suggest a good rummage through her jewellery box.
The chapters overlap and interrelate and readers in search of particular information will have to rummage.
And you can climb inside that head and rummage around, if he or she will let you.
Anyway, in those days all nature, all human life seemed to us to be rather clear, and we looked condescendingly upon physicists, chemists, and utilitarians, who rummaged in course matter.
He rummaged in the drawers at the lab and found the strongest possible compound, which happened to be chlorpromazine which they then wrote up in a paper in 1952.
He told us about rummage sales and so on.