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Rummage through refuse
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scavenge
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Word definitions for scavenge in dictionaries
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1640s, back-formation from scavenger . Related: Scavenged ; scavenging .
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Scavenge \Scav"enge\, v. t. To cleanse, as streets, from filth. --C. Kingsley. 2. to salvage (usable items or material) from discarded or waste material. 3. To remove (burned gases) from the cylinder after a working stroke.
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
verb EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS ▪ For parts, he scrounged around various offices and supply rooms, scavenging what seemed useful. ▪ He made his way through a ragpickers' village built with material scavenged from other parts of the city. ▪ He was looking for ...
Usage examples of scavenge.
Hens and geese scavenged beneath the patched mud walls, on which apotropaic religious symbols were painted.
And Barrington Grier had treated a nineteen-year-old Joshua Calvert who had just returned from his first scavenging flight as an equal, as a professional.
First when he was a cocky teenager looking for his nightly fix of spaceflight tales, then when he was scavenging, lying about how much he made and the unbelievable find that had just slipped from his fingers, and now as one of the super-elite, a starship owner-captain, one of the youngest ever.
Predatory and scavenging dinosaurs may have found good hunting for fish or amphibians in streams and lakes, and for small prey on the shores.
This suggestion is based primarily upon the observation that the largest birds today are scavenging vultures and condors.
It had been two months since the Commissioner had declared a moratorium on scavenging and had pulled all ships out of space, but this feeling of a stretched-out vista had not stopped thrilling Long.
Even the thought that the moratorium was called pending a decision on the part of Earth to enforce its new insistence on water economy, by deciding upon a ration limit for scavenging, did not cast him entirely down.
I spent the time scavenging paper and ink as unobtrusively as I might, working on various missives by the light of our campfires at night, and during the day, riding among the women of the zenana and conversing with the Ephesians.
After three days of scavenging for scraps and sleeping wedged in a dark corner of the hold, he was grateful for it.
When humanity had been forced from the sprawling Arcologies, it had tried shrewdly to market its scavenging skills among the mech cities.
No one had ever seen anything like a Mantis scavenging or navvy-policing or hunting the assets of other mech cities.
He had not felt so daunted and humble since the days when he first went out with his father on simple scavenging raids.
They specialized in it, the way Bishops knew scavenging better than anybody, and Pawns could grow food better.
Lori had also gone scavenging and come across a box that had once held some chocolate-covered peppermint candy.
He was referring, not to the boys scavenging coal, but to classes of people doing business on the northern shore of Billingsgate Dock.