| 单词 | forage |
| 释义 | forage (once / 1432 pages) vn To forage is to wander around looking for food. When it’s cold and snowy outside, birds may forage for food in your backyard, digging around for whatever they can find. The verb forage often describes animals searching for food, but it can also be applied to people. In those circumstances it retains the slightly desperate sense of coming up with whatever is available. For example, if you want to cook dinner but have no time to go to the grocery store, you might forage your refrigerator and cabinets to find good substitutes for ingredients in your recipe. WORD FAMILYforage: foraged, forager, forages, foraging+/forager: foragers/foraging: foragings USAGE EXAMPLESHe spent the day before foraging for food in an empty lot, because there was nothing to eat at home. New York Times(Dec 25, 2016) The birds are a familiar sight in the Mid-Columbia, foraging under dams such as the Wanawish on the Yakima River in the Horn Rapids area. Seattle Times(Dec 25, 2016) Essentially: dressing up like Florence Welch’s cat-lady aunt after a day spent foraging for oyster mushrooms. The Guardian(Dec 18, 2016) 1v collect or look around for (food) Syn|Hypo|Hyper scrounge rustle forage food hunt, hunt down, run, track down pursue for food or sport (as of wild animals) 2v wander and feed The animals forage in the woods Hypo|Hyper predate, prey, raven prey on or hunt for eat, feed take in food; used of animals only 3n the act of searching for food and provisions Syn|Hyper foraging hunt, hunting, search the activity of looking thoroughly in order to find something or someone 4n bulky food like grass or hay for browsing or grazing horses or cattle Syn|Hyper eatage, grass, pasturage, pasture fodder coarse food (especially for livestock) composed of entire plants or the leaves and stalks of a cereal crop |
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