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