Meaning

(ambitransitive) To hunt about, especially for something of nominal value; to scavenge or glean..

Definitions by Sense

1. (ambitransitive) To hunt about, especially for something of nominal value; to scavenge or glean.
2. (intransitive) To obtain something of moderate or inconsequential value from another.
3. Someone who scrounges; a scrounger.
4. An act of scrounging; a trip taken for the purpose of scrounging.

Example Sentences

scrounge for food

Now you don't seem so proud about having to be scrounging your next meal.

Laura snatches coins from inside a truck to make a telephone call, scrounges shoes and clothes for them at a municipal beach, schemes to get a room key so she and Howie can sleep overnight in the Starlight Motel, steals a Jeepster from a deputy sheriff who's trying to arrest them.

For example, the PC may have been caught slipping unobtrusively into a restaurant or pub on his ground to scrounge […] a drink or a meal.

The booty bandits, who craved sex with the weaker inmates, and the merchants, rich with scrounged or stolen items who kept safe through an uncanny craft to barter anything, followed.

When I was a young soldier, and had not yet acquired the tobacco vice (which began with scrounging cigarettes at routemarch halts when everyone else lit up and I felt left out) I used to win cross-country races.

As long as he's got someone who'll let him scrounge off them, he'll never settle down and get a full-time job.

"Still, it's not much good sending you two off on a medical supplies scrounge. What about food and general stores? Suit you?"

Word Forms

• scrounges
• scrounging
• scrounged

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Use scrounge when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.

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