FORAGES Synonyms
There are 9 hypernyms of the word forages. (close relations)
Best Alternative Words for FORAGES
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scours | verbv | |||||||
noun • diarrhea in livestock | ||||||||
examines | verbv | |||||||
verb • consider in detail and subject to an analysis in order to discover essential features or meaning • observe, check out, and look over carefully or inspect • question or examine thoroughly and closely • question closely • put to the test, as for its quality, or give experimental use to | ||||||||
explores | verbv | |||||||
verb • inquire into • travel to or penetrate into • inquire into a subject in detail • examine (organs) for diagnostic purposes | ||||||||
hunts | verbv | |||||||
noun • an association of huntsmen who hunt for sport • Englishman and Pre-Raphaelite painter (1827-1910) • an instance of searching for something • United States architect (1827-1895) • the activity of looking thoroughly in order to find something or someone • British writer who defended the Romanticism of Keats and Shelley (1784-1859) • the work of finding and killing or capturing animals for food or pelts • the pursuit and killing or capture of wild animals regarded as a sport verb • pursue for food or sport (as of wild animals) • pursue or chase relentlessly • chase away, with as with force • yaw back and forth about a flight path • oscillate about a desired speed, position, or state to an undesirable extent • seek, search for • search (an area) for prey | ||||||||
probes | verb, nounv, n | |||||||
noun • an inquiry into unfamiliar or questionable activities • a flexible slender surgical instrument with a blunt end that is used to explore wounds or body cavities • an exploratory action or expedition • an investigation conducted using a flexible surgical instrument to explore an injury or a body cavity verb • question or examine thoroughly and closely • examine physically with or as if with a probe | ||||||||
rummages | verbv | |||||||
noun • a jumble of things to be given away • a thorough search for something (often causing disorder or confusion) verb • search haphazardly | ||||||||
searches | verb, nounv, n | |||||||
noun • the activity of looking thoroughly in order to find something or someone • an investigation seeking answers • an operation that determines whether one or more of a set of items has a specified property • the examination of alternative hypotheses • boarding and inspecting a ship on the high seas verb • try to locate or discover, or try to establish the existence of • search or seek • inquire into • subject to a search | ||||||||
ventures | nounn | |||||||
noun • any venturesome undertaking especially one with an uncertain outcome • an investment that is very risky but could yield great profits • a commercial undertaking that risks a loss but promises a profit verb • proceed somewhere despite the risk of possible dangers • put forward, of a guess, in spite of possible refutation • put at risk | ||||||||
eatage | nounn | |||||||
noun • bulky food like grass or hay for browsing or grazing horses or cattle | ||||||||
foraging | verb, nounv, n | |||||||
noun • the act of searching for food and provisions | ||||||||
grass | nounn | |||||||
noun • German writer of novels and poetry and plays (born 1927) • narrow-leaved green herbage: grown as lawns; used as pasture for grazing animals; cut and dried as hay • a police informer who implicates many people • bulky food like grass or hay for browsing or grazing horses or cattle • street names for marijuana verb • shoot down, of birds • cover with grass • spread out clothes on the grass to let it dry and bleach • feed with grass • give away information about somebody | ||||||||
pasturage | nounn | |||||||
noun • succulent herbaceous vegetation of pastureland • bulky food like grass or hay for browsing or grazing horses or cattle | ||||||||
pasture | verb, nounv, n | |||||||
noun • a field covered with grass or herbage and suitable for grazing by livestock • bulky food like grass or hay for browsing or grazing horses or cattle verb • let feed in a field or pasture or meadow • feed as in a meadow or pasture | ||||||||
scrounge | verb, adjectivev, adj | |||||||
verb • collect or look around for (food) • obtain or seek to obtain by cadging or wheedling |