to scrounge
12
6.8
- verb
- /skaʊndʒ/
- Informal
:
hurgar
- During the camping trip, they managed to scrounge enough firewood from the area to keep warm.
- scrounge for food
- scrounge around
- scrounge up money
Alternatively, you can scrounge for packing materials that that hit the hard drive.
- Alternatively, you can scrounge for packing materials that that hit the hard drive.
- And I was like scrounging around in the couch cushions like I it's tough out here.
- And you just go to a salvage yard, start scrounging through, find what you want to put on your truck, the power steering reservoir that's out of a Jeep Wrangler.
- But no, I've been, I've been scrounging healthily by myself, actually.
- So I, I scrounged around and I got a, a sipper, a, a, a secret red line to H Kaya where I could talk to the SJA, who was a friend of mine who I knew.
Examples
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I thought I'd scrounge some lunch.
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"We're going to have to scrounge around for used ones."
Fiction book (1994) -
Can we scrounge anything useful?
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Hopefully this next week there is actually some color here in the Rose garden, so we might see what we can scrounge up in here.
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You can get this stuff at an office supply store, but it is more fun to scrounge.
Blog text (19) -
"What we brought with us, and whatever I can scrounge from the emergency reserves."
Fiction book (1993) -
Without being seen, she'd let him out near the house where he could scrounge for some food and for some information.
Fiction book (1990) -
Why lounge around when you can scrounge around for some nuts on the ground?
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The Japanese refugees used whatever fuel they could scrounge, plus jerry-rigged sails, to push disused cargo ships across the Pacific.
Blog text (9) -
I always took some money to donate at church, and if I could scrounge up enough, I'd buy a candle from the sad lady and light it in honor of my uncle Mason, Carroll Byrd, and Harlan Boyd.
Fiction book (1997)
Synonyms
129
1.6
Collect food like fruits, nuts, or plants from the wild
22
4.9
To search widely for food in the wild
4
6.7
To eat dead animals and food scraps
To search in fields and woods for food and useful items
Antonyms
Phrasal Verbs
How Resourceful
- Informal
12
6.8
22
4.9
8
6.4
35
3.8
- Informal
1
9.8
Surface Forms
Etymology
Scrounge has an uncertain history, but a helpful way to remember it is to think of scraps you find when you search for food. So, to scrounge (in this sense) is to look around and collect small bits or leftovers to eat.