Rummage

['rʌmɪdʒ]

解釋/意思:

(noun.) a jumble of things to be given away.

(verb.) search haphazardly; 'We rummaged through the drawers'.

校對:洛丽--From WordNet

解釋/意思:

(n.) 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.

(n.) A searching carefully by looking into every corner, and by turning things over.

(v. t.) 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.

(v. t.) 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.

(v. i.) To search a place narrowly.

校對:梅勒妮

同義詞及近義詞：

v. a. Search (carefully), examine, explore, ransack, pry into.

v. n. Make a search.

n. Search, examination, exploration.

校對:杜鲁门

解釋/意思:

v.t. to turn things over in search: to clear a ship's hold of goods: to pack: to stow closely: to ransack: to explore: to bring to light: to stir.—v.i. to make a search.—n. a careful search: an upheaval.—n. Rumm′ager.—Rummage sale a sale of unclaimed goods.

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