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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. SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases. Searching. -seeking. beachcomber.
The meaning of SCAVENGE is to remove (dirt, refuse, etc.) from an area. How to use scavenge in a sentence.
SCAVENGE definition: 1. to look for or get food or other objects in other people's rubbish: 2. If a wild animal…. Learn more.
1. a. To collect (useful items) by searching through refuse: scavenged a chair from the neighbor's trash. b. To search through (a place or container) for useful items. 2. To feed on (dead or decaying matter). Used especially of animals. 3. a. To expel (exhaust gases) from a cylinder of an internal-combustion engine. b.
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. SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases.
verb (used with object) , scav·enged, scav·eng·ing. to take or gather (something usable) from discarded material. to cleanse of filth, as a street. to expel burnt gases from (the cylinder of an internal-combustion engine).
When you scavenge, you pick through discarded things looking for whatever is salvageable and can be reused. If you're looking for a replacement part for a vintage car, you might scavenge at the dump for a suitable part.
4 meanings: 1. to search for (anything usable) among discarded material 2. to purify (a molten metal) by bubbling a suitable.... Click for more definitions.
scavenge. [transitive, intransitive] (of a person, an animal or a bird) to search through waste for things that can be used or eaten. scavenge something (from something) Much of their furniture was scavenged from other people's garbage.
Definition of scavenge verb in Oxford Advanced American Dictionary. Meaning, pronunciation, picture, example sentences, grammar, usage notes, synonyms and more.
