英语词汇“scrounge”的英英意思、用法、释义、翻译、读音、例句、短语、词组-英语词典

scroungescrounge /skraʊndʒ/ verb [intransitive, transitive]

ETYMOLOGYscrounge

Origin: 1900-2000 scrunge to steal

VERB TABLE

scrounge

Simple Form
Present	I, you, we, they	scrounge
	he, she, it	scrounges
Past	I, you, he, she, it, we, they	scrounged
Present perfect	I, you, we, they	have scrounged
	he, she, it	has scrounged
Past perfect	I, you, he, she, it, we, they	had scrounged
Future	I, you, he, she, it, we, they	will scrounge
Future perfect	I, you, he, she, it, we, they	will have scrounged

Continuous Form
Present	I	am scrounging
	he, she, it	is scrounging
	you, we, they	are scrounging
Past	I, he, she, it	was scrounging
	you, we, they	were scrounging
Present perfect	I, you, we, they	have been scrounging
	he, she, it	has been scrounging
Past perfect	I, you, he, she, it, we, they	had been scrounging
Future	I, you, he, she, it, we, they	will be scrounging
Future perfect	I, you, he, she, it, we, they	will have been scrounging

to get money or something you want by asking other people for it or searching through other things for it, rather than by paying for it: scrounge up She uses whatever she can scrounge up in her sculptures.scrounge (around) for something Children were scrounging around in garbage cans for food. [Origin: 1900–2000 scrunge to steal]—scrounger noun [countable]