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romage

romage is the obsolete spelling of rummage.

Meaning of rummage

Noun

rummage (countable and uncountable, plural rummages)

  1. A thorough search, usually resulting in disorder.
    • Have a rummage through the attic and see if you can find anything worth selling.
  2. (obsolete) Commotion; disturbance.
  3. A disorganized collection of miscellaneous objects; a jumble.
  4. A place or room for the stowage of cargo in a ship.
  5. The act of stowing cargo; the pulling and moving about of packages incident to close stowage.
    Synonyms:
    romage

See all 10 meanings of rummage

Forms of romage

Noun
pluralromages
Verb
third-person singular presentromages
present participleromaging
past participleromaged
pastromaged

Questions about romage

What is romage the obsolete spelling of?
Romage is the obsolete spelling of rummage.

Words near romage in the dictionary

  1. Romacks
  2. romaction
  3. Romadur
  4. Romaean
  5. Romaeans
  6. romage
  7. romaged
  8. romages
  9. romaging
  10. Romagna
  11. Romagnese

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Adapted from Wiktionary: romage (page history and authors); rummage (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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