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Scavenging vs Scrounging - What's the difference?

scavenging | scrounging |

As verbs the difference between scavenging and scrounging

is that scavenging is present participle of lang=en while scrounging is present participle of scrounge.

As nouns the difference between scavenging and scrounging

is that scavenging is the act of searching through refuse for useful material while scrounging is the act of one who scrounges.

scavenging

English

Verb

(head)

    • Noun

    (en noun)
  • The act of searching through refuse for useful material.
    • Our scavengings at the rubbish dump often yielded items of value.

    scrounging

    English

    Verb

    (head)

    • Noun

    (en noun)
  • The act of one who scrounges.
  • * 2002 , Marie-Anne Lescourret, Rubens: A Portrait (page 160)
    • What mattered to Vincenzo may have been a temporary lack of money (his wild living led him into frequent scroungings for cash; he was a bit of a spendthrift).
  • (in the plural) Material that has been scrounged.
  • * 2010 , Liane Merciel, The River Kings' Road (page 110)
    • Most of them were armed but not wealthy, outfitted in battered leather and the scroungings of a half-dozen battlefields.