Rummaging

noun, verb

noun, verb ·3 syllables ·Rare ·Advanced level

Definitions

Noun
  1. 1
    The act of one who rummages.

    "There was always the impossibility, of course, of finding him anything, the least bit "good," that he wouldn't already, long ago, in his rummagings, have seen himself[…]"

Verb
  1. 1
    present participle and gerund of rummage form-of, gerund, participle, present

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ransackingfishbeatbouillabaissebric-a-bracclutter

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"Who was rummaging through my things?"

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