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WordReference Random House Learner's Dictionary of American English © 2024rum•mage /ˈrʌmɪdʒ/USA pronunciation v., -maged, -mag•ing, n. v. - to search thoroughly through (a place, etc.), esp. by moving around, turning over, or looking through contents: [no object]to rummage through the drawers.[~ + object]to rummage the house for those papers.
n. [uncountable] - a jumble of things;
odds and ends.
WordReference Random House Unabridged Dictionary of American English © 2024rum•mage (rum′ij),USA pronunciation v., -maged, -mag•ing, n. v.t. - to search thoroughly or actively through (a place, receptacle, etc.), esp. by moving around, turning over, or looking through contents.
- to find, bring, or fetch by searching (often fol. by out or up).
v.i. - to search actively, as in a place or receptacle or within oneself:She rummaged in her mind for the forgotten name.
n. - miscellaneous articles;
odds and ends. - a rummaging search.
- ?) + -age -age
- aphetic alteration of Middle French arrumage, equivalent. to arrum(er) to stow goods in the hold of a ship (1520–30
Collins Concise English Dictionary © HarperCollins Publishers:: rummage /ˈrʌmɪdʒ/ vb - when intr, often followed by through: to search (through) while looking for something, often causing disorder or confusion
n - an act of rummaging
- a jumble of articles
Etymology: 14th Century (in the sense: to pack a cargo): from Old French arrumage, from arrumer to stow in a ship's hold, probably of Germanic originˈrummager n |