Someone who scavenges, especially one who searches through rubbish for food or useful things. / An animal that feeds on decaying matter such as carrion. / (UK, obsolete) A street sweeper.

(archaic) To scavenge. / (archaic) To clean the rubbish from a street, etc.

plural of scavenger

plural of scavengering

simple past tense and past participle of scavenger

present participle of scavenger

(dated) scavenging

(transitive) To collect and remove refuse, or to search through refuse, carrion, or abandoned items for useful material.

Third-person singular simple present indicative form of scavenge

simple past tense and past participle of scavenge