scavenges in English

verb
1
search for and collect (anything usable) from discarded waste.
people sell junk scavenged from the garbage
synonyms:foragerummagesearchhuntlookroot around/aboutgrub around/about
verb

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1. A jackal is a kind of the animal that scavenges rotten meat.

2. The next morning, Abraham scavenges the local area, and finds an abandoned Humvee containing RPGs and a box of cigars, on a bridge.

3. Purpurogallin scavenges not only xanthine oxidase generated oxyradicals, but also non-enzymatically produced peroxyl radicals, more actively than equimolar levels of Trolox or allopurinol.

4. High-density lipoprotein, or HDL, is known as the "healthy" or "good" type of Cholesterol due to the fact that it scavenges and removes the "bad" type of Cholesterol (low-density

5. Catalase is a tetrameric heme protein and detoxifies H2 O 2 into oxygen and water. It is a metalloprotein oxidoreductase enzyme and efficiently scavenges H 2 O 2 when it is present in high concentrations (Day 2009, Cao et al., 2003)

6. ‘The blackcap Basslet, a relative of the large species of groupers, uses its bulging eyes to find food while it scavenges on the coral reef.’ ‘We joined the swarming shoals of surgeon, Basslet, butterfly fish, damsel fish, fusiliers and some bemused jack fish.’