RUMMAGED Synonyms: 77 Similar and Opposite Words

rummaged

verb

past tense of rummage

as in found

to come upon after searching, study, or effort at the last minute she rummaged a costume from the attic

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as in searched

to look through (as a place) carefully or thoroughly in an effort to find or discover something he rummaged the desk drawer trying to find the spare keys

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Recent Examples of rummaged Police said while several vehicles appeared to have been rummaged through, no property was stolen. — Elyssa Kaufman, CBS News, 16 Oct. 2026 Cole rummaged through an archival box and pulled out a notebook that was no bigger than a business card. — Laura Preston, New Yorker, 30 Aug. 2026 Standing on the step by the front door, her father rummaged in his mouth with his fingers, took out the candy, trailing a thread of saliva, and threw it on the dirt floor. — Cynthia Zarin, Harpers Magazine, 4 Aug. 2026 Boo Mitchell rummaged around and found an old gift bottle of Four Roses bourbon given to Willie Mitchell. — Chris Kenning, USA Today, 15 May 2026 Small, phallic-looking worms rummaged through ocean-floor sediments while blind swimming beasts flung out whiplike tentacles to ensnare prey. — Marlowe Starling, Quanta Magazine, 1 May 2026 The bears also rummaged through neighbors’ trash and hauled it back beneath the house. — Samantha Agate, Kansas City Star, 20 Apr. 2026 The animals rummaged through neighbors’ trash and dragged it back to the den. — Samantha Agate, Charlotte Observer, 20 Apr. 2026 As this scene played outside, Jones rummaged through the metal cabinet behind me, pulling out one of his usual white Dixie Cups and filling it with vodka. — Josh Owens, HollywoodReporter, 14 Apr. 2026

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Randsburg, which was once a booming California Gold Rush town founded in 1895, has seen most of its residents leave over the years.

— Joy Benedict, CBS News, 22 Oct. 2026
At the time, Truell hadn’t founded a company; but three years later, the venture capitalist persuaded her firm, BoxGroup, to invest in the Gen Z engineering savant’s nascent business.

— Emma Burleigh, Fortune, 22 Oct. 2026

Definition of found

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Officers detained Hoang and searched the residence, finding two people with stab wounds.

— Summer Lin, Los Angeles Times, 21 Oct. 2026
Police manhunt Dozens of Sacramento police officers, along with other local law enforcement agencies, searched the area for the suspect.

— Rosalio Ahumada, Sacbee.com, 20 Oct. 2026

Definition of searched

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Filling in because of an injury, Tucker, a freshman, has discovered the importance of getting the ball to Davis, who has 11 touchdown receptions.

— Eric Sondheimer, Los Angeles Times, 25 Oct. 2026
Kriemler first discovered Jungwirth’s paintings at Thaddaeus Ropac about five years ago, traveling expressly to Bilbao, Spain, two years ago just to catch the big Jungwirth retrospective at the Guggenheim there.

— Miles Socha, Footwear News, 24 Oct. 2026

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Early Sunday morning, near the Place de la République, a part-time crossing guard named Joëlle, 71, scanned the wreckage along the Boulevard Voltaire from a bench, holding her shaggy shepherd mix, Pollux, on a leash.

— Michael Finnegan, Los Angeles Times, 19 Oct. 2026
Yet before the crows could be digitally designed, they were sculpted, and the character department built different parts of the crow — feathers, beaks, eyes and feet — to be scanned.

— Jazz Tangcay, Variety, 15 Oct. 2026

Definition of scanned

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As a child, Betkowski displayed a morbid curiosity with chemicals and explosives, Cooper learned.

— Lauren Mascarenhas, CNN Money, 24 Oct. 2026
For decades, junior accountants learned their trade by reconciling accounts, manually entering data, and grinding through the month-end close.

— Sam Birchall, Fortune, 23 Oct. 2026

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