Crossword-Solution: SCAVENGER
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Scavenger | v. | A person whose employment is to clean the streets of a city, by scraping or sweeping, and carrying off the filth. The name is also applied to any animal which devours refuse, carrion, or anything injurious to health. |
We have 18 clues for the answer “SCAVENGER”
| Clue | Answers |
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| Hunter at a party | 1 answer |
| person who scavenges | 1 answer |
| Vulture, for example. | 1 answer |
| Type of hunt | 1 answer |
| The lobster, for example. | 1 answer |
| Kind of party hunt | 1 answer |
| Kind of hunt | 1 answer |
| Junkyard shopper, say | 1 answer |
| Junkman, e.g. | 1 answer |
| Feeder on carrion | 1 answer |
| Carrion feeder | 2 answers |
| Junkman | 2 answers |
| hyena | 3 answers |
| Beachcomber | 7 answers |
| ANY ANIMAL THAT FEEDS ON REFUSE AND OTHER DECAYING ORGANIC MATTER | 11 answers |
| Vulture | 15 answers |
| Bird of Prey | 40 answers |
| "Bird" | 138 answers |
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Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
ARETE
Hint 3 another clue
greedy person
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Sentences with SCAVENGER (5)
There was no drainage to carry off the wine, and not only did it all get taken up, but so much mud got taken up along with it, that there might have been a scavenger in the street, if anybody acquainted with it could have believed in such a miraculous presence.
But, as there is the same inequality of wages (from that of the scavenger up to that of the minister of state) as of property, robbery continually rebounds from the stronger to the weaker; so that, since the laborer finds his hardships increase as he descends in the social scale, the lowest class of people are literally stripped naked and eaten alive by the others.
The coyote is not a scavenger by choice, preferring his own kill, but being on the whole a lazy dog, is apt to fall into carrion eating because it is easier.
This nasty little wrecker, scavenger, and squatter has learned the value of a spotted house; so it be of the right colour he will choose the smallest shard, tuck himself in a mere corner of a broken whorl, and go about the world half naked; but I never found him in this imperfect armour unless it was marked with the red spot.
She used to crawl about the floor of the shop workroom and under the table and chairs like a little scavenger.
Quotes with SCAVENGER (3)
Fear is a scavenger who feeds on the future; on what may be and what is possible, extending down the line of our lives.
Reinvention is my philosophy, if you want to call it that,” he says, looking out the window. “Imagination is the key to creating a life that is ever new.” Stanley turns his eyes to me. “We are each of us a changeling person,” he says. “We are not going to be the same decade after decade. Wisdom results from confronting not only one’s desires and capacities but also one’s limitations.” “The Layers,” one of Stanley’s best-loved poems, is his crystallization of this wisdom. I ha…
Every one is fond of comparing himself to something great and grandiose, as Louis XIV likened himself to the sun, and others have had like similes. I am more humble. I am a mere street scavenger (chiffonier) of science. With my hook in my hand and my basket on my back, I go about the streets of science, collecting what I find.
Where this answer appears
Appears in: LAT, Newsday, NYT, Universal, WP.
Used 9 times in crossword archives (1959–2016).