Scavenging is valid Scrabble Word

Definitions for SCAVENGING in dictionary:

VERB:
• (of an animal) search for (carrion) as food
• search for discarded items or food in (a place)
• search for and collect (anything usable) from discarded waste
• remove (combustion products) from an internal combustion engine cylinder on the return stroke of the piston
• combine with and remove (molecules, groups, etc.) from a particular medium
NOUN:
• the act of scavenging
OTHER DEFINITIONS:
• to search through rubbish for usable items

Words related to SCAVENGING

scavenge14 scavenged16 scavenges15 scavengings18

Words that contain SCAVENGING

scavengings18

How to use SCAVENGING in a sentence

• One of these scavenging birds was seen to be carrying a long object, like an eel, in its mouth.
• Abana and Pharpar, rivers of Damascus, were in flood as usual at that time of year, and the scavenging street curs had to swim from one garbage heap to the next.
• We are not wanted in any part of the British Dominion except as Pariahs to do the scavenging for the European settlers.
• It was there in the howl of the scavenging camp dogs, seeking, in their prowling pack, that which the daylight denied them.
• It should be said also that in New York an enormous amount of scavenging is paid for privately besides.
• It appears first in English in the Trinity House By-laws of 1685 regulating the scavenging boats attending ships lying in the Thames.
• Then, in its wake, came the plaintive dole of a scavenging coyote.
• The precise arrangements made for scavenging are unknown, but presumably it was done by the public slaves under the supervision of the aediles.
• She knew that it would take some scavenging to pull together a pile or two of leaves but she decided that she could do this in her own unique way.
• Scavenging on pink and yellow-stick legs like the birds, and flooded out with stunned worms and insects, she was these things.

Similar words containing SCAVENG without suffix ing

scavenge14 scavenged16 scavenger15 scavenges15 scavengers16 scavengery19 scavengered18 scavengings18 scavengeries18 scavengering19 scavengerings20 unscavengered20

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