单词 | scrounge |
释义 | scrounge I. transitive verb 1. a. < scrounge wood from bombed-out areas — A.W.Bromage > — often used with up < manpower might be summoned … and feed material scrounged up — R.E.Lapp > b. < got a shave and a haircut from a fellow prisoner who had scrounged a pair of clippers somewhere — E.J.Kahn > < had to scrounge water from the engine for their tea — Jack Wadsworth > 2. < the more money they can scrounge out of local communities, the more projects they can build — New Republic > 3. chiefly dialect < a number of his colleagues … are scrounged down into two columns under the cartoon — A.J.Liebling > intransitive verb 1. < scrounged for food in a burned field — Look > — often used with around < scrounge around and persuade someone to run off mimeographed copies for you — Infantry Journal > < not ashamed to scrounge around at night, picking up useful things — Richard Harrington > 2. < on relief and scrounging for more of the city's money than they were entitled to — Harrison Smith > II. 1. < decided to improve our surroundings with scrounge from neighboring houses — Infantry Journal > 2. |
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