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.

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

plural of scavenger

Third-person singular simple present indicative form of scavenge

simple past tense and past participle of scavenge

present participle of scavenge

That eats carrion

(gerund) The act of searching through refuse for useful material.

plural of scavenging