Definitions for rummage

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rummage rum·mage

Spelling: [ruhm-ij]

IPA: /ˈrʌm ɪdʒ/

Rummage is a 7 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 12 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 16 points.

You can make 140 anagrams from letters in rummage (aegmmru).

Definitions for rummage

noun

1. miscellaneous articles; odds and ends.
2. a rummaging search.

verb (used with object)

1. to search thoroughly or actively through (a place, receptacle, etc.), especially by moving around, turning over, or looking through contents.
2. to find, bring, or fetch by searching (often followed by out or up).

verb (used without object)

1. to search actively, as in a place or receptacle or within oneself:

Origin of rummage

1520-30; aphetic alteration of Middle French arrumage, equivalent to arrum(er) to stow goods in the hold of a ship (-age -age

Examples for rummage

She longed, she said, to go over the garrets and rummage her old nursery.

After the action we went to rummage a sort of camp, which they had left behind them.

She had to rummage her memory awhile to discover just what it was.

Did I ever walk into your house to pry and rummage, and tell you that your things were no use?

So I had to rummage through the refrigerator and use my own judgment.

Malamo Voulgaropoulou, a former singer now in her 80s, is one of many pensioners who rummage through dumpsters for food.

Another leaned forward at that point to rummage in her bag for a mint.

I want to rummage over my thoughts and see whether some of them are to be abandoned or not.'

Previously, Anderson had enraged Hoover by assigning a reporter to rummage through his trash at home.

You begin now and rummage the barn, and I'll wait here for you.