scavenge
ska vuhnj
- v clean refuse from
- v collect discarded or refused material
She scavenged the garbage cans for food - v feed on carrion or refuse
hyenas scavenge - v remove unwanted substances from
- Lacson describes politics as "a way to see the world through a garbage can," and he has made enemies among those who scavenge there.
- With power supplies getting tighter around the world, scientists are looking to scavenge extra energy from heat, rainstorms even footsteps.
- At a Red Cross outpost, artificial legs rain from the sky in parachutes dropped from a plane, and the legless Afghani men race out of the tents to scavenge for them.