to forage

Examples

• All

• In the siege of 1992, we were in the mountains, and we had to forage for food and cook it for ourselves.

  Dear Dictator (2018)

• Can you survive on only what you can grow, fish or forage for an entire month?

  Epic Gardening

• And like the wild animals of nature, they are able to forage for themselves in the desert.

  Academic text (1990)

• So not only can they escape predators more easily, but they can forage widely for food, so their chances of starving are also less.

• Did you want a breed that forages for most of its food?

  Fiction book (1997)

• As Anh Nam's children got older, they, too, were sent to forage for whatever they could.

  Fiction book (1997)

• Younger ants feed the queen and tend to the brood, while older workers forage for food and defend the nest.

• Long-tailed and pigtailed macaques could also be seen foraging on the ground and clambering through the trees.

  Academic text (2008)

• Caterpillars and beetle larvae forage about the roots of plants, grazing on the fine rootlets.

  Academic text (1993)

• The squirrels began to forage for nuts and berries to prepare for the cold season.

Synonyms

G

to gather

vsto forage

129 1.6

Collect food like fruits, nuts, or plants from the wild

search widely over large areas rather than just collect nearby items

S

to scrounge

vsto forage

• Informal

12 6.8

To search for food or supplies by using what you find

involves wider systematic searching rather than opportunistic collection

P

to prog

vsto forage

• Archaic

9.9

To search in fields and woods for food and useful items

is the neutral modern term without old-fashioned or informal tone

How Thorough

to scavenge

8 6.4

to forage

22 4.9

to search

∞ 1.0

to rummage

35 3.8

to scan

127 2.7

Surface Forms

Etymology