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scrounge
WORDNET DICTIONARY
Verb scrounge has 2 senses
- scrounge(v = verb.possession) forage - collect or look around for (food); Array is one way to hunt, hunt down, run, track down
- scrounge(v = verb.possession) cadge, schnorr, shnorr - obtain or seek to obtain by cadging or wheedling; "he is always shnorring cigarettes from his friends" is one way to beg
Derived form noun scrounger1
Sample sentences:
The men scrounge the area for animals
The men scrounge for animals in the area
Derived form noun scrounger1
Sample sentences:
Somebody ----s
Somebody ----s something from somebody
OXFORD DICTIONARY
scrounge, v. & n. colloq.
--v.
1 tr. (also absol.) obtain (things) illicitly or by cadging.
2 intr. search about to find something at no cost.
--n. an act of scrounging.
--v.
1 tr. (also absol.) obtain (things) illicitly or by cadging.
2 intr. search about to find something at no cost.
--n. an act of scrounging.
Idiom
on the scrounge engaged in scrounging.
Derivative
scrounger n.
Etymology
var. of dial. scrunge steal
THESAURUS
scrounge
abstract, and, annex, appropriate, bag, beg, boost, borrow, bum, cadge, cadger, come up with, cop, crib, defraud, embezzle, extort, ferret out, filch, freeload, freeloader, hit, hit up, hook, importune, lift, make off with, mooch, nip, nose out, palm, panhandle, parasite, pass the hat, pilfer, pinch, poach, purloin, run away with, rustle, scrape together, scrape up, scrounger, seek out, shoplift, smell out, snare, snatch, snitch, sponger, steal, swindle, swipe, take, thieve, touch, walk off with
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