scrounge 的 4 个定义
scrounged, scroung·ing.
- to borrow with no intention of repaying or returning it: to scrounge a cigarette.
- to gather together by foraging; seek out: We'll try to scrounge enough food for supper from the neighbors.
scrounged, scroung·ing.
- to borrow, especially a small item one is not expected to return or replace.
- a habitual borrower; sponger.
- an act or instance of scrounging.
- a person who exists by foraging.
- scrounge around, to search or forage for something, especially in a haphazard or disorganized fashion; hunt for: We scrounged around for something to eat.
scrounge 近义词
beg, forage for
更多scrounge例句
- Since Holtsman did not receive much guidance or support, he had to scrounge for supplies and ran his own operations.
- When you earn money, cash falls from the sky, meaning you have to scrounge on the floor for dollar bills.
- “I have been on food stamps and had to scrounge for money,” she says.
- I was able to scrounge up $9,000 and then put in $9,000 of my own, so I was in for $18,000.
- "Let's scrounge anything we can find that runs on gasoline or coal oil," said Al Miner.
- I was never any good at this so Bruce used to scrounge for us.
- While my company was in support one day my corporal and I managed to scrounge into a pill-box away from the awful mud.
- One day we missed one of our fellows, a Cockney, for about two hours, and guessed he was on the "scrounge" somewhere or other.
- Back from a spell behind Ypres in 1915, a few of us decided to scrounge round for a hair-cut.