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SCAVENGE
- to search through rubbish for items [v SCAVENGED, SCAVENGING, SCAVENGES]
- clean away dirt or refuse from cleanse scavenge a street
- to search through rubbish for usable items [v SCAVENGED, SCAVENGES, SCAVENGING]
- feed on (carrion or refuse)
- to remove (as dirt or refuse) from an area
- remove (burned gases) from the cylinder of an internal combustion engine after a working stroke
- remove (as an undesirable constituent) from a substance or region by chemical or physical means
- clean and purify (molten metal) by taking up foreign elements in chemical union
- salvage from discarded or refuse material
- salvage usable material from
- work or act as a scavenger