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scavenge::verb | Spocien Dictionary
| Type | Words |
|---|---|
| Synonyms | salvage |
| Type of | gather, collect, pull together, garner |
| Derivation | scavenger |
She scavenged the garbage cans for food.
| Type | Words |
|---|---|
| Type of | make clean, clean |
Examples of scavenge
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When he hears that a company is closing, he's there to see what he can scavenge.
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Many of them must scavenge for food scraps to eat and discarded items to resell.
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They scavenge the yard and select pieces to click-and-drag into Gary's workshop.
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He grew up in New York City, so poor that he sometimes had to scavenge for food.
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On infrequent trips to town, he would scavenge for unspoiled food in the trash.
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Grizzly bears also readily scavenge food on carrion left behind by other animals.
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Young boys scavenge through a garbage dump, while this woman digs underground.
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Trybus said that, as the night set in, he and his girlfriend went out to scavenge.
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On the plus side, flying creatures are excellent targets for Golgari scavenge.
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- Clean refuse from; "Scavenge a street"
- Salvage: collect discarded or refused material; "She scavenged the garbage cans for food"
- Feed on carrion or refuse; "hyenas scavenge"
- Remove unwanted substances from
- Scavenging, or necrophagy, is a carnivorous feeding behaviour in which a predator consumes corpses or carrion that were not killed to be eaten by the predator or others of its species. Scavengers play an important role in the ecosystem by contributing to the decomposition of dead animal remains. ...
- (Scavengers (album)) Scavengers, the second album from New York-based Calla.
- (Scavengers (tv show)) Scavengers was a British TV game show produced by Carlton Television, which aired across the ITV Network. It aired as a two series of 6 episodes the first of which was broadcast on Saturday Evenings at 7:00pm over the summer of 1994. ...
- (Scavenging (automotive)) Scavenging is the process of pushing exhausted gas-charge out of the cylinder and drawing in a fresh draught of air ready for the next cycle in automotive usage. This process is essential in having a smooth-running internal combustion engine. ...
- (The Scavengers) Formed at Auckland Technical Institute by Graphic Design students, Cooke, Munroe, Simons and Hart as The 1B Darlings in 1976, the band was heavily influenced by , Glam Rock and 60s US Garage Rock. ...
