Meaning

Someone who scavenges, especially one who searches through rubbish for food or useful things..

Definitions by Sense

1. Someone who scavenges, especially one who searches through rubbish for food or useful things.
2. An animal that feeds on decaying matter such as carrion.
3. (UK, Ireland, obsolete) A street sweeper.
4. (UK, Ireland, historical) A child employed to pick up loose cotton from the floor in a cotton mill.
5. (chemistry) A substance used to remove impurities from the air or from a solution.
6. (archaic) To scavenge.
7. (archaic) To clean the rubbish from a street, etc.

Example Sentences

garbage scavenger

A scavenger picked through the rubbish heap.

Vultures are natural scavengers.

Word Forms

• scavengers
• skavenger
• scavengering
• scavengered

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