0 past simple and past participle of scavenge
1 to look for or get food or other objects in other people's rubbish:
Detection of scavenged material in the guts of predators using monoclonal antibodies: a significant source of error in measurement of predation?
Perhaps the paint had been scavenged from a tribal construction project, and a few brushfuls were all that remained in the can.
Many relevant articles and case discussions can be found in journals or scavenged from textbooks.
Some dead animals may be scavenged but the abundance of food would leave many bodies untouched.
Inmates scavenged whatever they could get, and the new supplies were often too rich.
Our tips used to be scavenged by totters, who did quite a bit of constructive recycling.
They told us that they scavenged among potato peelings and such like in order to keep alive.
Of these, about 12 percent of carcasses were scavenged by other predators such as ravens or coyotes.
