SCAVENGE


Meaning of SCAVENGE in English

transcription, транскрипция: [ skævɪndʒ ]

( scavenges, scavenging, scavenged)

If people or animals scavenge for things, they collect them by searching among waste or unwanted objects.

Many are orphans, their parents killed as they scavenged for food...

Children scavenge through garbage...

Cruz had to scavenge information from newspapers and journals.

VERB : V for n , V prep / adv , V n , also V

• scav‧en‧ger

(scavengers)

...scavengers such as rats.

N-COUNT

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