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    scavenge
    scav‧enge /ˈskævəndʒ, ˈskævɪndʒ/ verb [intransitive and transitive]
     Date: 1600-1700
     Origin: scavenger (16-21 centuries), from scavager 'tax collector, someone who cleans streets' (15-19 centuries), from scavage 'tax on goods sold' (15-19 centuries), from Old North French escauwage 'examination'
    1. if an animal scavenges, it eats anything that it can find:
        Pigs scavenged among the rubbish.
        scavenge for
        rats scavenging for food
    2. if someone scavenges, they search through things that other people do not want, for food or useful objects:
        There are people who live in the dump and scavenge garbage for a living.
        scavenge for
        Women were scavenging for old furniture.
    —scavenger noun [countable]:
        Foxes and other scavengers go through the dustbins.