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Word | Scavenger |
someone who collects things that have been discarded by others / a chemical agent that is added to a chemical mixture to counteract the effects of impurities / A person whose employment is to clean the streets of a city, by scraping or sweeping, and carrying off the filth. The name is also applied to any animal which devours refuse, carrion, or anything injurious to health. / an animal that feeds on carrion, dead plant material, or refuse. / chiefly British : a person employed to remove dirt and refuse from streets / one that scavenges: as a: a garbage collector b: a junk collector c: a chemically active substance acting to make innocuous or remove an undesirable substance / an organism that typically feeds on refuse or carrion, | |
Usage | ⇒ Experts on the red kite - a spectacular bird with a wingspan of up to 6ft - say it is essentially a scavenger which feeds on carrion rather than attacking sheep or game birds. |
Synonyms | magpie, scrounger, sweeper, cleanser, purifier, clearer, marsupialian, beachcomber, scourer, sweep, animal, cannibal, cleaner, collector, dustman, insectivore, omnivore, pack rat, packrat, ruminant, |
Antonyms | contaminator, flora, |
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