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Definition
to search for and gather — often food and provisionsMore rarely: Forage can imply taking other's food or supplies as when soldiers forage on nearby farms. As a noun, it can reference the items found. Finally, at times (especially in classic literature) it is used in reference plant material eaten by animals.
- forage for firewood
forage = searched for and gathered
- I foraged through the refrigerator looking for something to eat.
- The animals forage in the woods.
- He had to forage for himself, and he foraged well,Jack London -- White Fang
- It was well I secured this forage, or both she, I, and Sophie, to whom I conveyed a share of our repast, would have run a chance of getting no dinner at all: every one downstairs was too much engaged to think of us.Charlotte Bronte -- Jane Eyre
- It takes honeybee workers ten million foraging trips to gather enough nectar to make one pound of honey.Sue Monk Kidd -- The Secret Life of Bees
- He got better at foraging for food, from neighbors and churches and the street.Michael Lewis -- The Blind Side
- Because the prisoners had to eat something, the Bulgarians allowed them to forage away from camp, but if they returned after dark they were shot.Mark Helprin -- A Soldier of the Great War
- He hid food in his pillowcase and foraged in garbage cans.Jay Allison, et al. -- This I Believe
- Unlike Dobby, she had obviously not foraged for clothes.J.K. Rowling -- Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire
- She remembers foraging for food—cold hot dogs and toast—when her mother wasn't home, and sometimes when she was.Christina Baker Kline -- Orphan Train
- The animals weren't the only ones who could forage to survive.Ben Mikaeslen -- Touching Spirit Bear
- Then they started to forage for wood.James Vance Marshall -- Walkabout
- They foraged the local factories for pieces of wood, metal, cinder blocks and other materials that might improve it.W. William Winokur -- The Perfect Game
- My days were more exciting when I was penniless and had to forage around for my next meal.Jon Krakauer -- Into the Wild
- Denisov, who had been losing at cards all night, had not yet come home when Rostov rode back early in the morning from a foraging expedition.Leo Tolstoy -- War and Peace
- He stared at them a long time from across the street one morning as they prepared for another day of foraging for food or whatever they could turn to food.Robert Cormier -- After the First Death
- Foraging around the medical area, I found the main bottle of vitamins.Andy Weir -- The Martian
- I have no clue what's out there beyond these woods and the two-mile stretch of interstate I hike every week to forage for supplies.Rick Yancey -- The 5th Wave
- Foraging about, I found a bottle with some brandy left, for Hands; and for myself I routed out some biscuit, some pickled fruits, a great bunch of raisins, and a piece of cheese.Robert Louis Stevenson -- Treasure Island
foraged = searched
forage = to search for and gather (in this case, food)
foraging = searching and gathering
foraging = searching for and gathering — often food and provisions
forage = search for and gather — often food and provisions
foraged = searched for and gathered — often food and provisions
foraged = searched for and gathered — often food and provisions
foraging = searching for and gathering — often food and provisions
forage = search for and gather food
forage = search for and gather — often food and provisions
foraged = searched for and gathered — often food and provisions
forage = search for and gather — often food and provisions
foraging = searching for and gathering — often food and provisions
foraging = searching for and gathering — often food and provisions
foraging = searching for and gathering — often food and provisions
forage = search for and gather — often food and provisions
foraging = searching for and gathering — often food and provisions