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(skævɪndʒ)
Word forms: 3rd person singular presenttense scavenges, present participle scavenging, past tense, past participle scavenged
verb
If people or animals scavenge for things, they collect them by searching among waste or unwanted objects.
Many are orphans, their parents killed as they scavenged for food. [VERB + for]
Children scavenge through garbage. [VERB preposition/adverb]
The foxes come and scavenge the bones. [VERB noun]
Cruz had to scavenge information from newspapers and journals. [VERB noun]
[Also VERB]
Synonyms: search, hunt, forage, rummage More Synonyms of scavenge
scavengerWord forms: plural scavengers countable noun
...scavengers such as rats.
Synonyms: forager More Synonyms of scavenge

scavenge in British English

(ˈskævɪndʒ)
verb
1. 
to search for (anything usable) among discarded material
2. (transitive)
to purify (a molten metal) by bubbling a suitable gas through it. The gas may be inert or may react with the impurities
3.  old-fashioned
to clean up filth from (streets, etc)
4.  chemistry
to act as a scavenger for (atoms, molecules, ions, radicals, etc)

scavenge in American English

(ˈskævɪndʒ)
verb transitiveWord forms: ˈscavenged or ˈscavenging
1. 
to clean up (streets, alleys, etc.); remove rubbish, dirt, or garbage from
2. 
to salvage (usable goods) by rummaging through refuse or discards
3. 
to remove burned gases from (the cylinder of an internal-combustion engine)
4.  Metallurgy
to clean (molten metal) by using a substance that will combine chemically with the impurities present
verb intransitive
5. 
to act as a scavenger
6. 
to look for food
Word origin
back-form. < scavenger

Examples of 'scavenge' in a sentence
scavenge

Yet the middle class has vanished and people are scavenging for food in the rubbish.
Times, Sunday Times (2012)
They were left scavenging for food to survive.
Times, Sunday Times (2013)
Instead she spent her days thinking about food, or scavenging in the mountains for weeds.
Times, Sunday Times (2010)
That does not just mean people scavenging for food, but also people who are not paying their rent so they can have food.
Times, Sunday Times (2012)
After a hard day scavenging and begging on the streets, they hop back on the train and return to the suburbs where they spend the night.
The Sun (2009)

In other languages
scavenge

British English: scavenge VERB
If people or animals scavenge for things, they collect them by searching among waste or unwanted objects.
They were forced to scavenge for food.
Stray dogs scavenged the bins at night.
  • American English: scavenge
  • Brazilian Portuguese: vasculhar dentre várias coisas desprezadas
  • Chinese: 搜集废弃物
  • European Spanish: rebuscar
  • French: faire les poubelles
  • German: herumsuchen
  • Italian: rovistare nei rifiuti
  • Japanese: あさる
  • Korean: 쓰레기 더미를 뒤지다
  • European Portuguese: vasculhar entre várias coisas desprezadas
  • Latin American Spanish: rebuscar

(verb) 
Definition
to search for (anything usable) among discarded material
The foxes come and scavenge for bones.
Synonyms
search
Armed troops searched the hospital yesterday.
hunt
forage
They were forced to forage for clothes and fuel.
rummage
They rummage through piles of second-hand clothes.
root about
fossick (Australian, New Zealand)
If you fossick around in some specialist music stores, you may be lucky enough to find a copy.
scratch about
grub about
Seeferret

Nearby words of
scavenge

  • scatterbrain
  • scatterbrained
  • scattering
  • scavenge
  • scavenger
  • scenario
  • scene

Synonyms of 'scavenge'

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