scavenger

noun · verbB2

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Danh từ

noun

Plural noun:

scavengersskavenger

1.
Someone who scavenges, especially one who searches through rubbish for food or useful things.
garbage scavenger
A scavenger picked through the rubbish heap.
2.
An animal that feeds on decaying matter such as carrion.
Vultures are natural scavengers.
3.
(Ireland, UK, obsolete)A street sweeper.
4.
(Ireland, UK, historical)A child employed to pick up loose cotton from the floor in a cotton mill.
5.
(chemistry) A substance used to remove impurities from the air or from a solution.

Động từ

verb

V_es/s

scavengers

V_ing/Gerund

scavengering

V_ed/pp

scavengeredskavenger

1.
(archaic)To scavenge.
2.
(archaic)To clean the rubbish from a street, etc.

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Nguồn gốc từ

Originally from Middle English scavager, from scawageour (one who had to do with scavage, inspector, tax collector), from *scawage, escauwage (scavage), Old French *scavage, escavage, alteration of escauvinghe (compare scewinga, sceawinga), from scauwōn (to inspect, to examinate, to look at).