scrounge (Meaning)

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scrounge (v)

collect or look around for (food)

obtain or seek to obtain by cadging or wheedling

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collect or look around for (food), obtain or seek to obtain by cadging or wheedling

earn, procure, eke (out), wrest,obtain, squeeze, acquire, wring, attain,scrape (up or together)

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The starving vagrant scrounged for scraps of food in the city's garbage cans.

The desperate hiker scrounged for supplies from abandoned campsites.

The homeless man scrounged for blankets and cardboard to shelter himself from the cold.

The thrifty student scrounged for textbooks and supplies at thrift stores.