If people or animals scavenge for things, they collect them by searching among waste or unwanted objects. Many are orphans, their parents killed as they scavenged for food Children scavenge through garbage Cruz had to scavenge information from newspapers and journals. + scavenger scavengers scav·en·ger scavengers such as rats
{f} clean up, cleanse; search through garbage for food; remove impurities; salvage a useful item from the garbage
The selective removal of material from the radioactive cloud from a nuclear explosion by inert substances, such as earth or water, introduced into the fireball The term is also applied to the process of removal of fallout particles from the atmosphere by precipitation See Rainout, Snowout, Washout
in the printing of solder paste through etched metal masks, this occurs where the flexible squeegee blade presses down into the open stencil cavity, with the result of scraping solder paste out of the stencil rather than depositing the desired thickness onto the substrate
Act or process of expelling the exhaust gases from the cylinder by some special means, as, in many four-cycle engines, by utilizing the momentum of the exhaust gases in a long exhaust pipe
searching for and feeding on decaying matter; "scavenging hyenas and vultures" searching for and salvaging anything useful from discarded material; "scavenging larvae
scavenge
Hyphenation
scav·enge
Turkish pronunciation
skävınc
Pronunciation
/ˈskavənʤ/ /ˈskævənʤ/
Etymology
[ 'ska-v&nj, -vinj ] (verb.) circa 1644. back-formation from scavenger.