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# 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 →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/scavenge/#m1)

2) In nature, animals scavenge when they eat dead animals or scraps they did not kill themselves. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/scavenge/#m2)

### 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 →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/scavenge/#x1)
- Vultures scavenge on dead animals. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/scavenge/#x2)
- Foxes scavenge through bins at night. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/scavenge/#x3)
- The castaways scavenged the wreck for tools. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/scavenge/#x4)
- We did a scavenger hunt in the park. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/scavenge/#x5)
- Raccoons scavenge in city rubbish in North America. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/scavenge/#x6)
- Scavenging animals help recycle nutrients in nature. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/scavenge/#x7)

### 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.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/167-australias-forests-and-tasmania-devils-cassowaries-and-lyrebirds/4/)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «scavenge» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/scavenge/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.