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单词 scrounge
释义 scrounge
I. \ˈskrau̇nj\ verb
(-ed/-ing/-s)
Etymology: alteration of English dialect scrunge to wander about idly
transitive verb
1.
 a. : to collect by foraging : round up : find, salvage
  < 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. : to acquire by other expedient means (as by borrowing, stealing, or swapping)
  < 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. : to obtain by persuasion : cadge, wheedle
 < the more money they can scrounge out of local communities, the more projects they can build — New Republic >
3. chiefly dialect : scrouge
 < a number of his colleagues … are scrounged down into two columns under the cartoon — A.J.Liebling >
intransitive verb
1. : to make a search : poke around : forage, hunt
 < 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. : wheedle
 < on relief and scrounging for more of the city's money than they were entitled to — Harrison Smith >
II. noun
(-s)
1. : material acquired by scrounging
 < decided to improve our surroundings with scrounge from neighboring houses — Infantry Journal >
2. : an act of scrounging
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