scavengeverb [ I or T ]
uk/ˈskæv.ɪndʒ/us/ˈskæv.ɪndʒ/to look for or get food or other objects in other people's rubbish:
The flood has left people and animals desperately scavenging for food.
We managed to scavenge a lot of furniture from the dump.
If a wild animal scavenges, it feeds on the flesh of dead decaying animals.
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Searching
- a needle in a haystack idiom
- beachcomber
- bounty hunter
- burrow
- cast around
- dig
- drag
- nose
- once-over
- pick
- pick through sth
- poke
- poke around
- seek
- strip search
- trail
- turn a place inside out idiom
- turn sth upside down idiom
- wanted
- wild-goose chase
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