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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. beachcomber.
to search for and collect unwanted food or objects, or of animals or birds to feed on decaying flesh: [ T ] We scavenged a table and chairs someone had thrown out.
The meaning of SCAVENGE is to remove (dirt, refuse, etc.) from an area. How to use scavenge in a sentence.
someone who collects things that people have thrown away or left somewhere: She earns her living as a scavenger at the city dump. Then scavengers came and dug up the metals worth selling. Fewer examples. Vultures are scavengers.
noun. (Automotive engineering: Vehicle components, Engine, transmission, and exhaust) Scavenging is the removal of exhaust gases from an engine cylinder. A part of the compressed air can be easily diverted to ensure complete scavenging of the exhaust gases.
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.
verb. to search for (anything usable) among discarded material. tr to purify (a molten metal) by bubbling a suitable gas through it. The gas may be inert or may react with the impurities. to clean up filth from (streets, etc) chem to act as a scavenger for (atoms, molecules, ions, radicals, etc)
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.
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.
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.
