scavenge meaning
EN
[ˈskæv.ɪndʒ] - VerbSGscavengesPRscavengingPT, PPscavenged
- (transitive) to collect and remove refuse, or to search through refuse, carrion, or abandoned items for useful material.
- (transitive) to remove unwanted material from something, especially to purify molten metal by removing impurities.
- (transitive) to expel the exhaust gases from the cylinder of an internal combustion engine, and draw in air for the next cycle.
- (intransitive) to feed on carrion or refuse.
- (transitive) to collect and remove refuse, or to search through refuse, carrion, or abandoned items for useful material.
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- Used in the Middle of Sentence
- [ … ] the Spouse scavenged and sold scrap metal for a fistful of lire, ate horse meat without censure and lugged straw baskets home from the neighborhood osteria, where chianti flowed from spigots.
- Tens of thousands of the unemployed scavenged the streets collecting cardboard, an enduring image that gave rise to the term “cartoneros.”
- At the contact to sediment infillings, fungi produced haustoria that penetrated and scavenged on the remains of fragmented marine organisms.
- Used in the Middle of Sentence
Definition of scavenge in English Dictionary
- Part-of-Speech Hierarchy
- Verbs
- Intransitive verbs
- Transitive verbs
- Intransitive verbs
- Verbs
- en scavenger
- en scavenges
- en scavenged
- en scavengers
- en scavengeable
Source: Wiktionary
Grammatically, this word "scavenge" is a verb, more specifically, an intransitive verb and a transitive verb.