forage

1. 1.

   collect or look around for (food)

   Synonymsscrounge

   Broaderhunt

   Narrowerrustle
2. 2.

   wander and feed

   “The animals forage in the woods”

   Broaderfeed

   Narrowerraven

Other forms of forage

plural

forages·

past tense

foraged·

present participle

foraging·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about forage

What does forage mean?

forage means "bulky food like grass or hay for browsing or grazing horses or cattle". That is the primary sense; the word has 4 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in forage?

forage has 2 syllables: fo-rage. The stress falls on "fo". In IPA it is /ˈfɔɹɪdʒ/.

What is another word for forage?

Close synonyms include eatage, pasture, pasturage, grass, foraging. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is forage a common word?

forage is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.