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Scavenge

verb

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Verb
  1. 1
    To collect and remove refuse, or to search through refuse, carrion, or abandoned items for useful material. transitive

    "We scavenged a couple of old beer cans for our art project."

  2. 2
    remove unwanted substances from wordnet
  3. 3
    To remove unwanted material from something, especially to purify molten metal by removing impurities. transitive
  4. 4
    feed on carrion or refuse wordnet
  5. 5
    To expel the exhaust gases from the cylinder of an internal combustion engine, and draw in air for the next cycle. transitive
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  1. 6
    collect discarded material wordnet
  2. 7
    To feed on carrion or refuse. intransitive
  3. 8
    clean refuse from wordnet

Etymology

Back-formation from scavenger.

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