rummage

verbransack, search

Synonyms for rummage

verb ransack, search

Antonyms for rummage

dislocate

verb. displace

Word Origin & History

1540s, "arrange (cargo) in a ship," from rummage (n.), 1520s, "act of arranging cargo in a ship," a shortening of Middle French arrumage "arrangement of cargo," from arrumer "to stow goods in the hold of a ship," from a- "to" + rumer, probably from Germanic (cf. Old Norse rum "compartment in a ship," Old High German rum "space," Old English rum; see room (n.)). Or else from English room (n.) + -age.

Meaning "to search closely (the hold of a ship), especially by moving things about" first recorded 1610s. Related: Rummaged; rummaging. Rummage sale (1803) originally was a sale at docks of unclaimed goods.

Example Sentences for rummage

I want to rummage over my thoughts and see whether some of them are to be abandoned or not.'

After the action we went to rummage a sort of camp, which they had left behind them.

So I had to rummage through the refrigerator and use my own judgment.

She had to rummage her memory awhile to discover just what it was.

Did I ever walk into your house to pry and rummage, and tell you that your things were no use?

You begin now and rummage the barn, and I'll wait here for you.

She longed, she said, to go over the garrets and rummage her old nursery.

To rummage means in the Elizabethan navigators to stow goods in a hold.

I vote we rummage up all the old charms we can, and try them.

So I began to rummage through all the drawers and boxes for fuse.

rummage

Synonyms for rummage

Antonyms for rummage

comb

delve

delving

derange

dislocate

rummage

Synonyms for rummage

Antonyms for rummage

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