scavenge

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They scavenge, they've built themselves sturdy one-room shacks; they have pets, cook, chat, argue, give each other haircuts.

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  1. transitive verb To search through for salvageable material: scavenged the garbage cans for food scraps.
  2. transitive verb To collect and remove refuse from: The streets are periodically scavenged.
  3. transitive verb To collect (salvageable material) by searching.
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  • Every new thing they could afford side by side with every second-hand piece they could scavenge, and all connected. —  FSF - April2006
  • Australopithecines lived in forests, but when they ventured out into the grasslands, perhaps to scavenge, they fell prey to predators who took their bodies to caves --where the fossils were found. —  F ;SF; - vol 089 issue 06 - December 1995
  • I figured I'd have to move eventually once the old man was gone, but the more food I could scavenge, the longer I could put that off. —  EQMM,September-October2007
  • You can scavenge or bum or steal—but that's a hard life, harder every year you live it. —  Emma Bull - Finder
  • Some of their scavenge is stained red, but no one seems to care. —  Asimov'sSF,December2006
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  1. Back-formation from scavenger.

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  1. A back-formation, from scavenger, taken as formed from a verb *scavenge + -er.
 

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/ˈskævɛndʒ/
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