scavenge

«scavenge» in Mova's school dictionary: to search through rubbish or leftovers for something… — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 1 sentence of Mova's corpora that use it.

part of speech

verb (scavenge, scavenges, scavenged, scavenging)

meaning for a pupil

1) To scavenge is to search through rubbish or leftovers for something useful, such as food or materials. tree →

2) In nature, animals scavenge when they eat dead animals or scraps they did not kill themselves. tree →

sense in the lessons

In science food chain lessons, scavengers like vultures, hyenas, crows and foxes clean up dead animals. In everyday life, a «scavenger hunt» is a game of finding a list of things. In stories, characters scavenge for food when they are lost or poor. Phrases: «scavenge for food», «scavenger hunt», «scavenging birds».

examples

• Seagulls scavenge for chips on the beach. tree →
• Vultures scavenge on dead animals. tree →
• Foxes scavenge through bins at night. tree →
• The castaways scavenged the wreck for tools. tree →
• We did a scavenger hunt in the park. tree →
• Raccoons scavenge in city rubbish in North America. tree →
• Scavenging animals help recycle nutrients in nature. tree →

note

Regular verb: scavenged. Noun: scavenger. A scavenger is different from a predator, which hunts and kills its food; some animals do both.

In the corpora

• Tasmanian devils are the biggest living meat-eating marsupials and scavenge as well as hunt.

Trees and pragmatics

Every meaning and example of «scavenge» parsed by Mova, each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.