SCROUNGE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does scrounge mean? 

• SCROUNGE (verb)
  The verb SCROUNGE has 2 senses:

1. collect or look around for (food)

2. obtain or seek to obtain by cadging or wheedling

  Familiarity information: SCROUNGE used as a verb is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• SCROUNGE (verb)

Present simple: I / you / we / they scrounge    ... he / she / it scrounges   
Past simple: scrounged   
Past participle: scrounged   
-ing form: scrounging   

Sense 1

Meaning:

Collect or look around for (food)

Classified under:

Verbs of buying, selling, owning

Synonyms:

forage; scrounge

Hypernyms (to "scrounge" is one way to...):

hunt; hunt down; run; track down (pursue for food or sport (as of wild animals))

Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "scrounge"):

rustle (forage food)

Sentence frames:

Something ----s
Somebody ----s
Somebody ----s PP

Sentence examples:

The men scrounge the area for animals
The men scrounge for animals in the area

Derivation:

scrounger (someone who mooches or cadges (tries to get something free))

Sense 2

Meaning:

Obtain or seek to obtain by cadging or wheedling

Classified under:

Verbs of buying, selling, owning

Synonyms:

cadge; schnorr; scrounge; shnorr

Context example:

he is always shnorring cigarettes from his friends

Hypernyms (to "scrounge" is one way to...):

beg (ask to obtain free)

Sentence frames:

Somebody ----s
Somebody ----s something from somebody

Derivation:

scrounger (someone who mooches or cadges (tries to get something free))