scavenge

Other forms of scavenge

past tense

scavenged·

present participle

scavenging·

third person

scavenges·

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 scavenge

What does scavenge mean?

scavenge means "clean refuse from". That is the primary sense; the word has 4 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in scavenge?

scavenge has 2 syllables: scav-enge. The stress falls on "scav". In IPA it is /ˈskævəndʒ/.

What is another word for scavenge?

Close synonyms include salvage, clean. 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 scavenge a common word?

scavenge 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.