rummage

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  1. transitive verb To search thoroughly by handling, turning over, or disarranging the contents of.
  2. transitive verb To discover by searching thoroughly.
  3. intransitive verb To make an energetic, usually hasty search.
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  • He wanted to retain his position as an onlooker before whom the spoil of an indiscriminate rummage was displayed, leaving him free to sort, reject and set aside. —  Died in the Wool - Ngaio Marsh - Alleyn 13: 1944
  • It is an internet-based 'virtual skip' where users can, for free, either rummage or dispose of useful items that might otherwise end-up in landfill.
  • And remember as you rummage: one man's discarded syringe is another man's source of hepatitis! —  Macleans.ca
  • There are many precautions one can take to preclude receiving sick in the great outside, so thought must be paid at all time to the surroundings and to the innate territory in which the rummage is pleasing place. —  Find Free Articles - ArticlesBase
  • It was apparently intended for a rummage sale, according to Williams. —  NBC San Diego - News Top Stories
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rummage:   rummaging ·  rummaged
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  1. From earlier romage, act of packing cargo, from French arrumage, from Old French, from arumer, to stow, from Old Provençal arumar : a-, to (from Latin ad-; see ad-) + perhaps run, ship's hold (of Germanic origin; see reuə- in Indo-European roots).

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  1. Early modern English rummage, *rommage, rommidge, romage, roomage; from room-age, n.: see roomage.
  2. from rummage, v.
 

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