0 past simple and past participle of scrounge
1 to get things, especially money or food, by asking for them instead of buying them or working for them:
Scores of family photos in my collection, scrounged from friends or discovered at second-hand bookshops over the years, attest to this truth.
At that time coal-owners "scrounged" around trying to find a pit which was unable to produce its quota.
They have somehow managed to collect some ancient beds and furniture which they had scrounged and which had been thrown out from old people's homes, and so forth.
He scrounged material and he scrounged instructors.
I can well remember going with other boys to what we called the fiery heap, taking with us potatoes that we had scrounged and roasting them in the hot ashes.
During this time they also scrounged supplies from local units, including commandeering a jeep, and taking rice and other rations from the countryside.
As the season wore on, teams began to fold, and the league scrounged around for replacements.
When his wages were spent, he borrowed and scrounged for money.
