scrounge around
informal— phrasal verb with scrounge uk/skraʊndʒ/us/skraʊndʒ/verb [ I or T ] informal
to look in different places or in a particular place where you might find something that you need:
She scrounged around in the tool box for a tack or nail to hang the sign up with.
Thesaurus: synonyms and related words
Searching
- a needle in a haystack idiom
- beachcomber
- bounty hunter
- burrow
- cast around
- dig
- drag
- nose
- once-over
- pick
- pick through sth
- poke
- poke around
- seek
- trail
- turn a place inside out idiom
- turn sth upside down idiom
- wanted
- wild-goose chase
- witch hunt
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