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Synonyms of forage in English:

forage


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verb

1‘villagers were forced to forage for food’

SYNONYMS
hunt, hunt around, search, look about, look round, look around, cast about, cast round, cast around, rummage, rummage about, rummage, rummage round, rummage, rummage around, ferret, ferret about, ferret, ferret around, root about, root around, scratch about, scratch around, nose about, nose round, nose around, scour, look high and low
seek, look, explore
informal scrounge around
British informal rootle around
New Zealand informal poozle

noun

1‘there was little forage for the horses’

SYNONYMS
fodder, feed, food, foodstuff, herbage, pasturage
silage, hay, straw
formal comestibles, provender

2‘a nightly forage for food’

SYNONYMS
scavenge, hunt, search, look, exploration, quest, scout, probe