scrounge

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By feeding their pets junk, breeding them in overcrowded kennels where they have to fight for scraps, or abandoning them as strays who need to scrounge or die, humans have turned the natural feeding instincts of animals into dangerous food obsessions.

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  1. transitive verb To obtain (something) by begging or borrowing with no intention of reparation: scrounged a few dollars off my brother.
  2. transitive verb To obtain by salvaging or foraging; round up.
  3. intransitive verb To seek to obtain something by begging or borrowing with no intention of reparation: scrounge for a cigarette.
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  • For the breech, scrounge or purchase a 9" long piece of 2" diameter heavy-walled steel pipe. —  15_ImprovisedWeapons
  • Attempt to scrounge or "liberate" a piece of this material… try scrapyards and construction sites. —  15_ImprovisedWeapons
  • They would survive on what they could scrounge or hunt down The point of the exercise, as Chainer understood it was to fill his head with fresh ideas. —  SCOTT McGOUGH
  • Anything rescuers could scrounge was put to work - bright orange rubber dinghies, rickety wooden rowboats, canoes and shallow-bottomed army transports that appeared pulled straight from World War II. —  SouthCoastToday.com Latest Headlines
  • There are also street denizens that are professional hobos, meaning that they do it for a living to scrounge in garbage cans or beg for alms. —  - Latest Popular Stories, Instablogs Community
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  1. Alteration of dialectal scrunge, to steal.
 

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