Past tense of scavenge

Forms of scavenge

Scavenged in a sentence

• We scavenged a couple of old beer cans for our art project.
• He built his first hoverchair all by himself out of scavenged parts when he was only eight!2006, Carolyn Hill, Bead's Pickle. From the entry hoverchair
• Tens of thousands of the unemployed scavenged the streets collecting cardboard, an enduring image that gave rise to the term “cartoneros.”2015 June 25, James B. Stewart, “If Greece Defaults, Imagine Argentina, but Much Worse”, in New York Times. From the entry cartonero
• At the contact to sediment infillings, fungi produced haustoria that penetrated and scavenged on the remains of fragmented marine organisms.2015 July 17, “Zygomycetes in Vesicular Basanites from Vesteris Seamount, Greenland Basin – A New Type of Cryptoendolithic Fungi”, in PLOS…. From the entry infillings
• Poppies, hemp, and darnel were scavenged, dried, and ground up to produce a medieval hash brownie known as "crazy bread".1999, Robert Lacey, Danny Danziger, The Year 1000: What life was like at the turn of The First Millennium, London: Abacus, published 2000…. From the entry darnel

Meaning of scavenge

1. verb To collect and remove refuse, or to search through refuse, carrion, or abandoned items for useful material.
2. verb To remove unwanted material from something, especially to purify molten metal by removing impurities.
3. verb To expel the exhaust gases from the cylinder of an internal combustion engine, and draw in air for the next cycle.

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Questions about the past tense of scavenge

What is the past tense of scavenge?

The past tense of scavenge is scavenged.

What is the past participle of scavenge?

The past participle of scavenge is scavenged.

Is scavenge a regular or irregular verb?

Scavenge is a regular verb: its past tense adds -d.