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rummagesnounpl. of rummage an unorganized collection or mixture of various thingsa rummage of textbooks, notebooks, and old school papers all over the desk agglomerates, agglomerations, alphabet soups, assortments, botches, clutters, collages, crazy quilts, farragoes, gallimaufries, grab bags, gumbos, hashes, hodgepodges, hotchpotches, jambalayas, jumbles, jungles, litters, macédoines, medleys, mélanges, menageries, miscellanea, miscellanies, mishmashes, mixed bags, montages, motleys, muddles, olios, olla podridas(also ollas podridas), omnium-gatherums, pastiches, patchwork quilts, patchworks, potpourris, ragbags, ragouts, salads, salmagundis, scrambles, shuffles, smorgasbords, stews, tumbles, varieties, welters detritus, notions, oddments, odds and ends, sundriesaccumulations, aggregates, aggregations, conglomerates, conglomerationscatchallsadmixtures, alloys, amalgams, blends, combinations, commixtures, composites, compounds, fusions, intermixtures, mix-upsbollixes, chaoses, confusions, disarrangements, disarrays, disorders, dog's breakfasts(chiefly British), messes, morasses, muddles, shamblesimbroglios, knots, snarls, tangles rummagesverbpresent tense third-person singular of rummageto come upon after searching, study, or effortat the last minute she rummaged a costume from the attic ascertains, descries, detects, determines, digs out, digs up, discovers, dredges (up), ferrets (out), finds, finds out, gets, hits (on or upon), hunts (down or up), learns, locates, noses out, roots (out), routs (out), runs down, scares up, scouts (up), tracks (down), turns up espies, sights, spotslooks for, searches (for or out), seeks misses, overlooks, passes over loses, mislays, misplaces, missets to look through (as a place) carefully or thoroughly in an effort to find or discover somethinghe rummaged the desk drawer trying to find the spare keys combs, digs (through), dredges, hunts (through), rakes, ransacks, rifles, scours, searches, sorts (through), trolls frisks, pats down, shakes downaudits, checks (out), examines, inspects, investigates, reviews, scans, scrutinizes, surveysascertains, descries, detects, determines, discovers, ferrets (out), finds, finds out, gets, hits (on or upon), learns, locates, runs down, scares up, tracks (down)grubs (about), pokes (around)explores, probes, prospects, skirmishes, snoopsbrowses, glances (over), looks overperuses, studies hidesabandons, losesignores, neglects |