scrounge

POS

Verb (usu participle)

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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

Derived form noun scrounger₁

Sample sentences:
The men scrounge the area for animals
The men scrounge for animals in the area

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:
Somebody ----s
Somebody ----s something from somebody

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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.

Idiom

on the scrounge engaged in scrounging.

Derivative

scrounger n.

Etymology

var. of dial. scrunge steal

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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