Definitions for rummages

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rummages rum·mage

Spelling: [ruhm-ij]

IPA: /ˈrʌm ɪdʒ/

Rummages is a 8 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 12 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 16 points.

You can make 311 anagrams from letters in rummages (aegmmrsu).

Definitions for rummages

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 rummages

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 rummages

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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