a verb for searching the refrigerator

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Hello,

What is a verb I can use which means to search the refrigerator?

I woke up and found her in the kitchen searching the refrigerator.

What can I use instead of search in the above sentence?
 
It has a "hurried" connotation. I don't need to mean it was hurried.
It doesn't imply hurried. I'd use a preposition with it: rummaged around, rummaged through.

There are also:

- browsed around
- poked around
- perused
- raided
- rifled (That is hurried!)
- ransacked (Ditto.)
- investigated (Very unhurried.)
- inventoried (Very, very unhurried.)
- plundered (Violent.)
- pillaged (Rapacious.)

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A modern verb for this is scanned.
 
It doesn't imply hurried. I'd use a preposition with it: rummaged around, rummaged through.

There are also:

- browsed around
- poked around
- perused
- raided
- rifled (That is hurried!)
- ransacked (Ditto.)
- investigated (Very unhurried.)
- inventoried (Very, very unhurried.)
- plundered (Violent.)
- pillaged (Rapacious.)

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Thanks a lot! I found rummage through and rummage around in, in this dictionary:

I heard you rummaging around in the refrigerator.
https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/rummage#learn-more
 
. . . I woke up and found her in the kitchen searching the refrigerator. . . .
Coincidentally, I wrote a song about that once:

"Midnight Snack"
copyright Leon Fullerton

I woke up at midnight to an empty bed.
Where was my baby? My heart was full of dread.
I heard a thump from down the hall. Could it be a burglary?
A light shone from the kitchen. I tiptoed down to see.

That's when I caught my baby fooling around behind my back.
That's when I caught my baby having a midnight snack.​

Her head was stuck in the fridge, like a botched-up suicide,
a stack of Tupperware containers tottered by her side.
She was excavating coldcuts from the back of the bottom rack.
I said, "Babe, you'll catch your death in there! Come on back to the sack!

The night I caught my baby sneaking around behind my back.
The night I caught my baby having a midnight snack.​

She had a Ring-Ding in her fist, she had a drumstick in her mouth,
she had a strange light in her eye, like her mind had traveled south.
It was a case of midnight munchies, the worst I ever saw.
Should I run to get a doctor? Should I notify the law?

The night I caught my baby slipping around behind my back.
The night I caught my baby having a midnight snack.​

She finally got it all to the table. It took her seven trips.
Then she dealt herself a Dagwood that would defy a gator's lips.
When she finally got down to it, I saw how it would be.
If you can't lick 'em, join 'em: "Honey, make some room for me!"

The night I caught my baby messing around behind my back.
The night I caught my baby having a midnight snack.​
 
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Thanks a lot! I found rummage through and rummage around in, in this dictionary ….
Please repost the above with correct punctuation.
 
Please repost the above with correct punctuation.

Thanks a lot! I found "rummage through" and "rummage around" in dictionary.
I heard you rummaging around in the refrigerator.
 
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