Synonyms for scavenge
Definitions
- v. 1
To collect and remove refuse, or to search through refuse, carrion, or abandoned items for useful material.
They had to scavenge the forest for firewood.
Related words
- Word family
- scavenger
Forms
- Past participle
- scavenged
e.g. scavenged → scrounged, ragpicked, salvaged, cleaned…
Example sentences
- scrounge I'll have to scrounge up another couple of dollars.
- salvage Perhaps we can salvage some parts off this plane.
By length
- 5 letters
- clean1
- 7 letters
- salvage2, ragpick
- 8 letters
- scrounge1
The small number after each word is its number of syllables (salvage2 = 2 syllables).