rummaging

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Let's see what I have in my uploaded but not used photo folder. * sound of rummaging* How about some scenery pictures from mid-October? guardian fruit basket, protecting the inhabitants from … scurvy?

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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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  • No amount of memory-rummaging was telling me why I had been convinced of Alain's innocence. —  EQMM, Sep/Oct 2005
  • After a moment of fruitless rummaging, his hand touched something that brought a sigh of relief to his lips. —  SF Quarterly
  • He lit a lamp and went rummaging, finding a tin of soda biscuits and a jar of honey. —  THE MISTRESS
  • After a little rummaging, he discovered what must be the ultrasonic transmitter—a beautifully compact little gadget, which the fire had not damaged beyond the point of repair. —  SCHMIT~1.TXT
  • He drifted to the back and commenced rummaging, finally locating his headset in the webbing of his top desk drawer. —  AnalogSFF,April2006
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