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8 lettersPronunciation /ˈskɹaʊ̯nd͡ʒ/Part of speech verbSorted cegnorsuStarts with SEnds with E0 cluesCommon crossword word
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Definitions

  1. collect or look around for (food)

Word origin

1915, alteration of dialectal scrunge ("to search stealthily, rummage, pilfer") (1909), of uncertain origin, perhaps from dialectal scringe ("to pry about"); or perhaps related to scrouge, scrooge ("push, jostle") (1755, also Cockney slang for "a crowd"), probably suggestive of screw, squeeze. Popularized by the military in World War I.

Used in a sentence

  • scrounge for food
  • Now you don't seem so proud about having to be scrounging your next meal.
  • For example, the PC may have been caught slipping unobtrusively into a restaurant or pub on his ground to scrounge […] a drink or a meal.

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