Usually means: Searched through something thoroughly, disorderly.
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We found 15 dictionaries that define the word rummaged:

General (13 matching dictionaries)
  1. rummaged: Merriam-Webster
  2. rummaged: Collins English Dictionary
  3. rummaged: Vocabulary.com
  4. rummaged: Wordnik
  5. rummaged: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  6. rummaged: Wiktionary
  7. Rummaged, rummaged: Dictionary.com
  8. rummaged: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  9. Rummaged: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  10. Rummaged: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  11. rummaged: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  12. rummaged: FreeDictionary.org
  13. rummaged: TheFreeDictionary.com

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. rummaged: Legal dictionary

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  1. rummaged: Idioms

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Definitions from Wiktionary (Rummage)

verb:  (transitive, nautical) To arrange (cargo, goods, etc.) in the hold of a ship; to move or rearrange such goods.
verb:  (transitive, nautical) To search a vessel for smuggled goods.
verb:  (transitive) To search something thoroughly and with disregard for the way in which things were arranged.
verb:  (intransitive) To hastily search for something in a confined space and among many items by carelessly turning things over or pushing things aside.
noun:  A thorough search, usually resulting in disorder.
noun:  (obsolete) Commotion; disturbance.
noun:  A disorganized collection of miscellaneous objects; a jumble.
noun:  (nautical) A place or room for the stowage of cargo in a ship.
noun:  (nautical) The act of stowing cargo; the pulling and moving about of packages incident to close stowage.
noun:  A surname from German.
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