scavenge
verb (used with object)
to take or gather (something usable) from discarded material.
have scavenged
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present perfectof scavenge.present perfect
Used to describe actions that started in the past and continue into or have direct relevance to the present.
Example Sentences
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The ability to flip that pain into happiness in the form of shoes has been compromised by outsiders, by culture vultures who have scavenged off two generations' worth of street innovators.
From Salon ● May 13, 2022
The creatures may have scavenged the dead fish’s brain, leaving a profuse amount of excrement in their wake.
From New York Times ● Feb. 4, 2022
They have scavenged for scant produce at the market and collected dwindling World War II-style food rations.
From Reuters ● May 20, 2021
There are more than 500,000 LINE-1 retrotransposons in the human genome11, and these elements have scavenged and reinserted the codes for other proteins inside the cell as well.
From Scientific American ● Jul. 26, 2017
She regularly checked its status on the Book Scavenger website, but you never knew if someone might have scavenged it but not logged the find.
From "Book Scavenger" by Jennifer Chambliss Bertman
