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SCROUNGE

Pronunciation (US):

(GB):

 I. (verb) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

Collect or look around for (food)

Synonyms:

forage; scrounge

Classified under:

Verbs of buying, selling, owning

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

Example:

he is always shnorring cigarettes from his friends

Synonyms:

cadge; schnorr; scrounge; shnorr

Classified under:

Verbs of buying, selling, owning

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))

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