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[fawr-ij, for-]

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noun

food for horses or cattle; fodder; provender.

the seeking or obtaining of such food.

the act of searching for provisions of any kind.

a raid.

verb (used without object)

to wander or go in search of provisions.

to search about; seek; rummage; hunt: He went foraging in the attic for old mementos.

to make a raid.

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verb (used with object)

to collect forage from; strip of supplies; plunder: to forage the countryside.

to supply with forage.

10.

to obtain by foraging.

Origin:
1275–1325; Middle English < Old French fourrage, derivative of fuerre fodder (< Gmc)

Related forms

for·ag·er, noun

un·for·aged, adjective

Synonyms
1. See feed.

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Example Sentences

Of course you cannot question my right to forage on the country.

Wild, in which the star is dropped into the harsh wilderness and forced to forage.

The robot could, for instance, forage for biofuel while a unit on a long-endurance mission rested.

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Of course you cannot question my right to forage on the country.

Wild, in which the star is dropped into the harsh wilderness and forced to forage.

The robot could, for instance, forage for biofuel while a unit on a long-endurance mission rested.

When the animals can't forage as effectively, they begin to single out livestock as an alternative food source.

The cod's own prey, forage fishes, thrived following the fishery collapse.

The major difference is that the social queens rarely leave their nest, and rarely forage for pollen and nectar.

Find a south-facing spot in your garden, preferably by some forage plants and nectar sources.

Judging by their skeletons, the baby duckbills would have been too feeble to forage on their own.

But they rely on the forage fish that are now being devastated by the combined effects of oil and chemical dispersants.

Feeding bees supplements, rather than relying on their ability to forage in the wild, costs time and money.

S zambesianus begins to forage for a fresh pile of dung around sunset.

Rutz and his team used the footage to determine that the birds forage around eight small food items per hour.

The researchers speculate the chimps know best where to forage on their old stamping grounds.

She'll never fly out to forage in the great blue beyond.

After a female penguin lays one or two eggs, she leaves the nest to forage for food while dad guards the eggs.

Feeding hungry elk supplemental forage would be contrary to the park service's hands-off policy.

When rainfall and forage drop below a level that has in the past killed the animals, policyholders would be paid.

The change may have forced the seabirds to swim farther to forage.

They forage together the year around and nest together in the breeding season.

Slouching in their seats and perching their forage caps on their knees, they began to talk.

The problem is that forage fish are the feedstock of marine mammals and birds and larger species of fish.

Their forage and water supplies have diminished, but the cattle must still be fed.

These nocturnal animals hide in coral reef cavities during the day and crawl out after dark to forage for food.

Believe it or not, bees forage in a similar geographic pattern to that of serial killers committing crimes.

There has never been such a scarcity of provisions and forage in that country as at present.

But the real test of the relief effort will come over the next four months, as water, forage and credit all run out.

The pale, eyeless ant appears to be adapted to living underground, possibly surfacing at night to forage.

About soil, the roots are sufficient to forage all the soil's bugs.

The country was generally poor, and afforded but a scanty supply of forage for the horses.

They resist carrying rations or ammunition on patrol, preferring to forage from villages.

These adaptable primates store fat in their tails and hind legs, burning it when forage is lean.

Families survive on small welfare payments and on what they can forage.

These cliff-dwelling baboons disperse to forage during the day and reconvene in much smaller groups at night.

They do deep damage to the environment by eating natural forage available for native bighorn sheep and mountain goats.

Zookeepers hide food in these items, requiring the animals to forage for their meals as they would in the wild.

Squirrels are garden pests that forage on seeds, flower bulbs and vegetables in both urban and rural settings.

These animals forage in the cooler temps of morning and afternoon to avoid exerting themselves in the debilitating midday heat.

Study the metabolic adjustments that enable this air-breathing reptile to forage for extended periods underwater.

They sleep in hollows at night and forage by day while traveling from branch to branch.

Fast ice provides marine mammals a platform on which to interact, mate, and forage.

But when flickers forage on the ground, their beaks can superbly pluck scurrying ants-the birds' favorite food.

These cerebral primates forage for food during daylight hours.

In winter, common ravens may gather in flocks to forage during the day and to roost at night.

Flickers are woodpeckers that can hammer trees but prefer to forage on the ground.

They forage for food and build and protect the hive, among many other societal functions.

Some dolphins use marine basket sponges to forage for food because it allows them to uncover prey undiscoverable by echolocation.

It is the rapid shrinkage of the land where the beasts can stomp and forage unhindered.

These costumed researchers teach the growing chicks how to forage for food and accustom them to the ultralight.

Wings were a great survival tool that let them forage and rise above their enemies.

And no, you are not condemned to forage behind burger joint dumpsters for sloppy buckets of smelly grease to get around.

But if tough times send you out to forage for food-beyond the nearest fast-food restaurant-be.

The researchers let a rat run back and forth between the two boxes and forage for food until it became familiar with both.

They often forage for food from garbage cans and pet dishes.

The few aid organisations in-country report a big rise in people taking to the hills to forage for wild foods.

Mayflies in streams where trout were released now forage at night to avoid the fast-swimming predators.

For commutation of forage for officers' horses, two hundred and eighty-three thousand four hundred and fourteen dollars.

Especially when used in a permaculture system where the birds forage a portion of.

Many of the dead were old people and children, or urban dwellers of any age with no way to forage off the land.

Beekeepers must often plead with landowners to allow bees to be placed on their land to forage for nectar.

Her owners expect that she will be able to forage for food, as she recently captured and ate a bumblebee for a snack.

Conservation groups cite loss of sagebrush habitat to forage for cattle as the primary reason for the species' decline.

As the farmers grow poorer, they cut down trees for fuel and as forage for their livestock.

With their preferred food sources unavailable, they forage farther and expose themselves to.

And in recent months the police have dispatched dog teams to forage through the high school for drugs.

Women face severe personal security risks as they forage for fuel, especially from refugee camps and in conflict zones.

After two or three days, geese get the message and forage elsewhere.

Viewed from a low-flying plane, elephants forage on the salt-laden banks of a river in.

Great flocks of starlings, settling in fresh stubble fields and pastures, forage noisily before moving.

They come out of their yard in a rush in the mornings and forage ravenously across the pastures and into the garden debris.

Foxes forage at the roadside, headlights igniting their eyes.

And the area is a bountiful stopping point with forage for birds flying much farther south.

Walruses forage on the sea floor and usually use sea ice as a resting platform between feedings.

At dusk, hippos leave the river's last deep pools and melt into the darkness of the bush to forage.

They forage during daylight hours and go to sleep aloft before sunset.

So nobody's deciding whether it's a good day to forage.

They forage on or near the ground and hop along far more often than they fly.

Elephant seals migrate in search of food, spending months at sea and often diving deep to forage.

Moving through deep snow burns precious energy and forage can be scarce.

Like many of the plants, the insects are active and taking opportunity of the greenery to forage and breed.

We tend to focus on the fact that without sea ice polar bears cannot effectively forage.

Their ability to communicate and forage would become so compromised that they simply will not exist here.

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World English Dictionary

forage (ˈfɒrɪdʒ)

—n
1.	food for horses or cattle, esp hay or straw
2.	the act of searching for food or provisions
3.	military a raid or incursion

—vb
4.	to search (the countryside or a town) for food, provisions, etc
5.	(intr) military to carry out a raid
6.	(tr) to obtain by searching about
7.	(tr) to give food or other provisions to
8.	(tr) to feed (cattle or horses) with such food

[C14: from Old French fourrage, probably of Germanic origin; see food, fodder]

'forager

—n

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Word Origin & History

forage

early 14c., from O.Fr. forage, from fuerre "fodder, straw," from Frankish *fodr "food" (cf. O.H.G. fuotar, O.E. fodor); see fodder. The verb is first recorded early 15c. Related: Foraged; forager; foraging.

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