scavenge
verb (used with object)
to take or gather (something usable) from discarded material.
scavenges
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present tense formof scavenge (3rd person singular).present tense
Used to describe things happening now or regularly.
Example Sentences
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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
He scavenges trash cans for recyclables during the day and stops when the heat is too much, resting and sometimes sleeping under an oak tree.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 14, 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
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 Charles Kingsley
