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Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
scavenge /ˈskavɪn(d)ʒ/

▶verb

1 search for and collect (anything usable) from discarded waste.
■ search for (carrion) as food.

2 remove (combustion products) from an internal-combustion engine cylinder on the return stroke of the piston.

3 Chemistry combine with and remove (molecules, radicals, etc.) from a particular medium.

– origin C17 (in the sense ‘clean out’): back-form. from scavenger.

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