Usually means: Collecting usable items from waste.
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  1. scavenge: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. scavenge: Merriam-Webster
  3. scavenge: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  4. scavenge: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  5. scavenge: Collins English Dictionary
  6. scavenge: Vocabulary.com
  7. Scavenge, scavenge: Wordnik
  8. scavenge: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  9. scavenge: Wiktionary
  10. scavenge: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  11. scavenge: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  12. scavenge: Infoplease Dictionary
  13. scavenge: Dictionary.com
  14. scavenge: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  15. Scavenge: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  16. Scavenge: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  17. scavenge: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  18. scavenge: Rhymezone
  19. scavenge: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  20. scavenge: FreeDictionary.org
  21. scavenge: Mnemonic Dictionary
  22. scavenge: TheFreeDictionary.com

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. scavenge: Legal dictionary

Computing (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. scavenge: Hacking Lexicon
  2. scavenge: Encyclopedia

Medicine (1 matching dictionary)
  1. scavenge: Medical dictionary

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
  1. scavenge: Idioms

Slang (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. scavenge: Green’s Dictionary of Slang
  2. scavenge: Urban Dictionary

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(Note: See scavenged as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
verb:  (transitive) To collect and remove refuse, or to search through refuse, carrion, or abandoned items for useful material.
verb:  (transitive) To remove unwanted material from something, especially to purify molten metal by removing impurities.
verb:  (transitive) To expel the exhaust gases from the cylinder of an internal combustion engine, and draw in air for the next cycle.
verb:  (intransitive) To feed on carrion or refuse.

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