I. verb
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
rummage sale
rummage/rifle through drawers (= search in them by moving things around in an untidy way )
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Someone had been in my bedroom and rummaged through my drawers.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ NOUN
drawer
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Some one had rummaged through the drawer .
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Then he let her rummage through his desk drawers , rearranging them however she liked.
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I rummaged through my drawer for his key.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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Donna rummaged in her purse and found hers.
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I rummaged through my drawer for his key.
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It was like rummaging through some one else's dreams.
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She rummaged around and found a teapot and a mug.
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She rummaged around, hoping for inspiration, discarding brooches and beads and belts.
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She rummaged in the cupboard, lifting out and rejecting one dish after another.
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While the congregation sat waiting, Brian rummaged through the sacristy until he found some stale hosts.
II. noun
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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A rummage in the scrap box revealed an odd plastic corner plate.
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And do be careful if you decide to open up the box yourself to have a rummage around.
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Boarding and rummage of a merchant vessel presents no particular problem to us.
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I was in charge of the rummage crew, and feeling that I had done my bit went to find the others.
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In those days units, or mobile rummage crews, setting up schemes between us as a result of local smuggling information.
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Lots of hairdressers now have accessory counters so why not have a rummage ?
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Of course, our rummage crews were working on more or less virgin territory, where no customs rummage crew had been before.
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Then began the long, painstaking job of deep rummage .