I rummaged through my top drawer, looking for any two socks that matched.
•Mary spent some time rummaging through the toolbox before she found what she was looking for.
Dictionary of American idioms. 2013.
rummage — [[t]rʌ̱mɪʤ[/t]] rummages, rummaging, rummaged 1) VERB If you rummage through something, you search for something you want by moving things around in a careless or hurried way. [V prep] They rummage through piles of second hand clothes for… … English dictionary
rummage — rum|mage1 [ˈrʌmıdʒ] v [I always + adverb/preposition] also rummage around/about to search for something by moving things around in a careless or hurried way rummage in/through etc ▪ Looks like someone s been rummaging around in my desk. rummage 2 … Dictionary of contemporary English
rummage — I UK [ˈrʌmɪdʒ] / US verb [intransitive] Word forms rummage : present tense I/you/we/they rummage he/she/it rummages present participle rummaging past tense rummaged past participle rummaged to search for something among a lot of other things… … English dictionary
rummage — rum|mage1 [ rʌmıdʒ ] verb intransitive to search for something among a lot of other things: rummage in/through: She rummaged in a drawer for some aspirin. rummage rum|mage 2 [ rʌmıdʒ ] noun 1. ) count a search for something among a lot of other… … Usage of the words and phrases in modern English
rummage — 1 verb (intransitive always + adv/prep) also rummage around to search for something by moving things around in a careless way (+ in/through etc): Looks like someone s been rummaging around in my desk. 2 noun 1 have a rummage informal to rummage 2 … Longman dictionary of contemporary English
rummage — verb search unsystematically and untidily for something. ↘make a thorough search of (a vessel). noun an act of rummaging. Derivatives rummager noun Word History Rummage came into English in the late 15th century, from the Old French word arrumage … English new terms dictionary
seek — seek, *search, scour, hunt, comb, ferret out, ransack, rummage are comparable when they mean to look for or go in quest of in the hope of finding. Seek has become widely extended in application and may take as its object either a person or a… … New Dictionary of Synonyms
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