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到處翻尋,搜出,檢查翻箱倒櫃的尋找,檢查,碎屑

資料來源 : Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

Rummage \Rum"mage\, v. i.
   To search a place narrowly.

         I have often rummaged for old books in Little Britain
         and Duck Lane.                           --Swift.

         [His house] was haunted with a jolly ghost, that . . .
         . . . rummaged like a rat.               --Tennyson.

Rummage \Rum"mage\ (?; 48), n. [For roomage, fr. room; hence
   originally, a making room, a packing away closely. See
   {Room}.]
   1. (Naut.) 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. [Obs.]

   2. A searching carefully by looking into every corner, and by
      turning things over.

            He has made such a general rummage and reform in the
            office of matrimony.                  --Walpole.

   {Rummage sale}, a clearance sale of unclaimed goods in a
      public store, or of odds and ends which have accumulated
      in a shop. --Simmonds.

Rummage \Rum"mage\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Rummaged}; p. pr. & vb.
   n. {Rummaging}.]
   1. (Naut.) 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}. [Obs.]

            They might bring away a great deal more than they
            do, if they would take pain in the romaging.
                                                  --Hakluyt.

   2. 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.

            He . . . searcheth his pockets, and taketh his keys,
            and so rummageth all his closets and trunks.
                                                  --Howell.

            What schoolboy of us has not rummaged his Greek
            dictionary in vain for a satisfactory account! --M.
                                                  Arnold.

資料來源 : WordNet®

rummage
     n 1: a jumble of things to be given away
     2: a thorough search for something (often causing disorder or
        confusion); "he gave the attic a good rummage but couldn't
        find his skis" [syn: {ransacking}]

rummage
     v : search haphazardly; "We rummaged through the drawers"