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What does scavenge mean?

Looking for the meaning or definition of the word scavenge? Here's what it means.

Verb
  1. (transitive) to collect and remove refuse, or to search through refuse, carrion, or abandoned items for useful material
  2. (transitive) to remove unwanted material from something, especially to purify molten metal by removing impurities
  3. (transitive) to expel the exhaust gases from the cylinder of an internal combustion engine, and draw in air for the next cycle
  4. (intransitive) to feed on carrion or refuse
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Billy helped her scavenge dumps and junkyards for the motors and wheels and other detritus that would compose her giant vehicle.
Any of the above, as well as weasels, lemmings, some hawks, ravens, Canada jays, and gulls will scavenge caribou carcasses.
The European red fox is common in the urban rural fringe areas where they scavenge for food.
Although crocodiles are formidable predators, taking prey as large as antelopes, they will allow crocodile birds to scavenge among their teeth.
Eggs are drought resistant and lay on the ground, where the larvae scavenge on dead insects.
He plants cover crops, some to scavenge nutrients, others to biologically fix nitrogen.

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