Dictionary Entry
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
- 1noun
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.
- 2noun
A searching carefully by looking into every corner, and by turning things over.
- 3transitive 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.
- 4transitive 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.
- 5intransitive verb
To search a place narrowly.
- 6noun
a thorough search for something (often causing disorder or confusion)
"he gave the attic a good rummage but couldn't find his skis"
Synonyms
- 7noun
a jumble of things to be given away
- 8verb
search haphazardly
"We rummaged through the drawers"
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