Usually means: Collected from discarded or unused items.
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General (9 matching dictionaries)
  1. scavenged: Merriam-Webster
  2. scavenged: Collins English Dictionary
  3. scavenged: Vocabulary.com
  4. scavenged: Wordnik
  5. scavenged: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  6. scavenged: Wiktionary
  7. scavenged: Dictionary.com
  8. scavenged: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  9. scavenged: TheFreeDictionary.com

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. scavenged: Legal dictionary

(Note: See scavenge as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (scavenge)

verb:  (transitive) To collect and remove refuse, or to search through refuse, carrion, or abandoned items for useful material.
verb:  (transitive) To remove unwanted material from something, especially to purify molten metal by removing impurities.
verb:  (transitive) To expel the exhaust gases from the cylinder of an internal combustion engine, and draw in air for the next cycle.
verb:  (intransitive) To feed on carrion or refuse.
▸ Also see scavenge


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