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scavenge
[ skav-inj ]
verb (used with object)
- to take or gather (something usable) from discarded material.
- to cleanse of filth, as a street.
- to expel burnt gases from (the cylinder of an internal-combustion engine).
- Metallurgy. to purify (molten metal) by introducing a substance that will combine chemically with impurities.
verb (used without object)
- to act as a scavenger.
- (of an engine or cylinder) to become scavenged of burnt gases.
- to search, especially for food.
scavenge
/ 藞蝉办忙惫瑟苍诲萧 /
verb
- to search for (anything usable) among discarded material
- tr to purify (a molten metal) by bubbling a suitable gas through it. The gas may be inert or may react with the impurities
- to clean up filth from (streets, etc)
- chem to act as a scavenger for (atoms, molecules, ions, radicals, etc)
Other 亚洲网紅露点 Forms
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亚洲网紅露点 History and Origins
Example Sentences
And there are cases that are suspected to have resulted from outdoor cats that play with or scavenge infected or dead birds.
Just metal cans and whatever dried goods we can scavenge.
Specialized occupational therapy tools at the clinic were replaced by scavenged substitutes: buttons, small glasses, pieces of wood or pipe now help patients relearn activities of daily living.
Unfortunately, this puts them at an elevated risk of lead poisoning should they scavenge on an animal killed with lead ammunition.
In his opening speech to the jury during a retrial at the Old Bailey, Francis FitzGibbon KC said that Marten was "consumed by grief" and "reduced to scavenging for food" after her baby died.
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