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Word | Scavenge |
collect discarded or refused material; She scavenged the garbage cans for food / clean refuse from / To cleanse, as streets, from filth. / hunt through discarded materials for usable items; search, especially for food / search for and collect (anything usable) from discarded waste. / of an animal : to search for food to eat / to search through waste, junk, etc., for something that can be saved or used, | |
Usage | ⇒ Badgers will scavenge from sheep and lamb carcesses ⇒ If you need car parts that the dealers no longer stock, try scavenging for odd bits and pieces at the auto wreckers' yards. ⇒ Rats scavenged in the trash. ⇒ people sell junk scavenged from the garbage ⇒ he seems to be scavening all the garbage cans ⇒ the old woman was scavenging in the garbage can |
Synonyms | clean, forage, rummage, salvage, cleanse, prowl, purge, purify, salve, wipe, clean out, clean up, sweeten, wipe off, bleach, bowdlerise, bowdlerize, chasten, clear out, degas, |
Antonyms | cram, dirty, contaminate, contaminating, corrupt, distract, goad, hoard, pollute, polluting, resuscitate, infect, revitalize, ruin, save, soil, sully, welcome, foul, reply, |
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