scrounge
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- v collect or look around for (food)
- v obtain or seek to obtain by cadging or wheedling
- But he hasn't forgotten the days when he had to scrounge.
- Once the monarch of the seas, he is now forced to scrounge humiliatingly for sponsorship in a crass and unfeeling world.
- Pulitzer-prizewinning humorist Dave Barry, 58, may have stopped writing his weekly column a year ago, but he managed to scrounge together some thoughts for his 27th book, out next .