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scavenges

  • present tense form of scavenge (3rd person singular).

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That same pigment in your skin also naturally scavenges free radicals in response to damaging environmental pollution from industrial sources and automobile exhaust fumes.

From Science Daily Nov. 2, 2023

Oxygen scavenges methane, so there was a rapid disappearance of methane; Earth lost that early methane greenhouse effect.

From Scientific American Sep. 26, 2023

The local artist scavenges twigs and bark and reassembles the tree scraps into objects that resemble parts of actual trees.

From Washington Post Jan. 27, 2023

Munyoki’s mother, Martha Waringa, a 35-year-old single parent who also scavenges, says her son’s wages will help pay his seven siblings’ school fees when classes resume.

From Washington Times Oct. 20, 2020

They are Vorticellæ; and every one of those bells, by the ciliary current on its rim, is scavenging the water - till a tadpole comes by and scavenges it. 

From Prose Idylls, New and Old by Kingsley, Charles