SCAVENGING Synonyms

• the act of searching for food and provisions

• the pursuit and killing or capture of wild animals regarded as a sport

• the activity of looking thoroughly in order to find something or someone

• the work of finding and killing or capturing animals for food or pelts

• plundering during riots or in wartime

• the quantity of a crop that is harvested

• the act of picking (crops or fruit or hops etc.)

• the act of stealing valuable things from a place

• given to taking by force what is desired

• characterized by plundering or pillaging or marauding

• a thorough search for something (often causing disorder or confusion)

• diligent and thorough in inquiry or investigation

• having keenness and forcefulness and penetration in thought, expression, or intellect

• exploring thoroughly

• the act of separating grain from chaff

• the act of removing floating material from the surface of a liquid

• reading or glancing through quickly

• failure to declare income in order to avoid paying taxes on it

• the act of brushing against while passing

• To hunt game with ferrets.

• (by extension) To uncover and bring to light by searching; usually to ferret out.

• Hunting with ferrets.

• Ferret (tape used to tie documents)

• make off with belongings of others

• gather, as of natural products

• someone who mooches or cadges (tries to get something free)

• ask for and get free; be a parasite

• make off with belongings of others

• a jumble of things to be given away

• a thorough search for something (often causing disorder or confusion)

• search haphazardly

• property or goods saved from damage or destruction

• the act of saving goods or property that were in danger of damage or destruction

• the act of rescuing a ship or its crew or its cargo from a shipwreck or a fire

• save from ruin, destruction, or harm

• collect discarded material

• any of numerous elongate mostly marine carnivorous fishes with heterocercal caudal fins and tough skin covered with small toothlike scales

• a person who is ruthless and greedy and dishonest

• a person who is unusually skilled in certain ways

• play the shark; act with trickery

• hunt shark

• a sweeping stroke or blow

• strike with a swiping motion

• make off with belongings of others