0 past simple and past participle of rummage
1 to search for something by moving things around carelessly and looking into, under, and behind them:
The man with the mask of a bird rummaged inside you.
For a while, he found solace in the companionship of a mouse that occasionally rummaged through his supplies.
All of the rooms were rummaged, but nothing of worth was found.
The further education provisions remind me of the lucky dip, where one rummaged around in the sawdust and ended up with the suspicion that very little had been put in.
I have no doubt that as further dusty archives are rummaged it will not be long before 60 will be an understatement.
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.
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.
