FORAGE


Meaning of FORAGE in English

I. verb

COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES

a foraging expedition (= when you search for food )

On our foraging expedition into the woods, we found mushrooms and wild berries.

COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS

■ NOUN

food

The murdering sun had dipped below the horizon, and this was the time when she could forage for food .

A light rum and tonic in hand, he abandoned his post for the kitchen to forage for food .

EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES

Writers who need a good title have often foraged in Shakespeare or the Bible.

EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS

A light rum and tonic in hand, he abandoned his post for the kitchen to forage for food.

A troupe of golden-crowned kinglets was foraging close to the ground.

At this time of the year, the goats can forage fairly freely and will cover relatively large areas.

Or send a search engine to forage for the best prices or availability across hundreds of shops simultaneously.

Red and gray squirrels are foraging.

The murdering sun had dipped below the horizon, and this was the time when she could forage for food.

There was fireweed with furry yellow-and-black bumblebees foraging from it, and there were bears and caribou.

II. noun

EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS

It could be worn with the sword belt on the outside; and the either the forage or the field headgear.

Neither reindeer nor caribou have benefited much, since for them lack of forage is the problem.

The Azollablue-green alga combination fixes atmospheric nitrogen and is widely used as fertilizer and as forage .

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