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to scavenge in the garbage

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  • scavenge — scav·enge || skævɪndÊ’ v. clean up, cleanse; search through garbage for food; remove impurities; salvage a useful item from the garbage …   English contemporary dictionary

  • scavenge — [skav′inj] vt. scavenged, scavenging [back form. < SCAVENGER] 1. to clean up (streets, alleys, etc.); remove rubbish, dirt, or garbage from 2. to salvage (usable goods) by rummaging through refuse or discards 3. to remove burned gases from… …   English World dictionary

  • scavenge — [[t]skæ̱vɪnʤ[/t]] scavenges, scavenging, scavenged VERB If people or animals scavenge for things, they collect them by searching among waste or unwanted objects. [V for n] Many are orphans, their parents killed as they scavenged for food... [V… …   English dictionary

  • scavenge — scav|enge [ˈskævındʒ] v [I and T] [Date: 1600 1700; Origin: scavenger (16 21 centuries), from scavager tax collector, someone who cleans streets (15 19 centuries), from scavage tax on goods sold (15 19 centuries), from Old North French escauwage… …   Dictionary of contemporary English

  • scavenge — verb (I, T) 1 if an animal scavenges, it eats anything that it can find: dogs scavenging from the dustbins 2 if someone scavenges, they search through things that other people do not want for food or useful objects (+ for): a man scavenging for… …   Longman dictionary of contemporary English

  • scavenger — 01. Crabs are [scavengers]; they eat decaying matter, thereby helping to clean up the ocean. 02. After the lions had eaten their fill, [scavengers] such as jackals and hyenas came to finish off the remains. 03. Every large city in this country… …   Grammatical examples in English

  • La Chureca — Churequeros working in La Chureca La Chureca (Spanish slang word for “city dump”) is the municipal domestic and industrial waste disposal site of Managua, Nicaragua. It is the largest open air landfill in Central America, covering 7 km2 in… …   Wikipedia

  • Safe Passage (Maine) — Safe Passage or Camino Seguro is a non profit organization that provides school enrollment and after school support for poor children whose families scavenge the Guatemala City Garbage Dump in Guatemala City. Safe Passage was founded in 1999 by… …   Wikipedia

  • Golden Jackal — Taxobox name = Golden JackalMSW3 Wozencraft | pages = 574 | id=14000704] status = LC trend = up status system = iucn3.1 status ref =IUCN2006|assessors=Sillero Zubiri Hoffmann|year=2004|id=3744|title=Canis aureus|downloaded=5 May 2006 Database… …   Wikipedia

  • Gull — Taxobox name = Gulls image width = 250px image caption = Black headed Gull regnum = Animalia phylum = Chordata classis = Aves ordo = Charadriiformes subordo = Lari familia = Laridae familia authority = Vigors, 1825 subdivision ranks = Genera… …   Wikipedia

  • dipteran — /dip teuhr euhn/, adj. 1. dipterous (def. 1). n. 2. a dipterous insect. [1835 45; DIPTER(A) + AN] * * * Any member of the more than 85,000 species in the insect order Diptera (the two winged, or true, flies), characterized by the use of only one… …   Universalium

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