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forage

verbCommon GRE wordMore F words

to search widely for food or provisions; to rummage for needed supplies

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Forage in a sentence

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With supplies running low, the hikers foraged the forest floor for edible plants.

Synonyms
scavengerummagesearchhunt
Antonyms

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Verbal · Text Completion

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Forage (verb) means to search widely for food or provisions; to rummage for needed supplies
Here is forage used in an example sentence: "With supplies running low, the hikers foraged the forest floor for edible plants."
Common synonyms for forage include scavenge, rummage, search, hunt.
Forage is a GRE-level vocabulary word worth knowing for the Verbal section.

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