rummage

rummage is a 7-letter English word with 8 senses as noun, transitive verb, intransitive verb, and verb in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: A place or room for the stowage of cargo in a ship; also, the act of stowing cargo; the pulling and moving about of packages incident to close stowage; -- formerly written romage. Face value is 12 in Scrabble and 16 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.

7 letters · Scrabble 12 · Words With Friends 16 · 8 senses

Definitions

1. noun. A place or room for the stowage of cargo in a ship; also, the act of stowing cargo; the pulling and moving about of packages incident to close stowage; -- formerly written romage.
2. noun. A searching carefully by looking into every corner, and by turning things over.
3. transitive verb. To make room in, as a ship, for the cargo; to move about, as packages, ballast, so as to permit close stowage; to stow closely; to pack; -- formerly written roomage, and romage.
4. transitive verb. To search or examine thoroughly by looking into every corner, and turning over or removing goods or other things; to examine, as a book, carefully, turning over leaf after leaf.
5. intransitive verb. To search a place narrowly.
6. noun. a thorough search for something (often causing disorder or confusion)

   "he gave the attic a good rummage but couldn't find his skis"

   Synonyms: ransacking

7. noun. a jumble of things to be given away
8. verb. search haphazardly

   "We rummaged through the drawers"

Synonyms

ransacking

Common word forms

rummaged, rummager, rummages, rummaging

Words from these letters

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