Pronunciation guide: IPA symbols, stress and word endings

θ	thin	ð	this	ʃ	she	ʒ	measure
tʃ	church	dʒ	judge	ŋ	sing	j	yes

p b t d k g f v s z h m n l r w sound as in ordinary English spelling.

ˈ main stress, before the stressed syllable: /ˈwɔːtə/ water · ˌ lighter (secondary) stress: /ˌʌndəˈstænd/ understand
ː a long vowel · (r) an r said only in accents that pronounce it (most American, Scottish, Irish)

-s / -es (plurals; he/she form of verbs): /s/ after voiceless sounds (cats), /z/ after voiced (dogs), /ɪz/ after s, z, sh, ch, j sounds (buses, watches). Spelling: -es after s, x, z, ch, sh; consonant + y → -ies (city → cities).
-ed (past): /t/ after voiceless sounds (walked), /d/ after voiced (played), /ɪd/ after t or d (wanted). Spelling: love → loved, stop → stopped, carry → carried.
-ing: make → making, run → running, see → seeing.
Irregular: go, went, gone · be, was, been · see, saw, seen · man → men · child → children · mouse → mice.
Older (King James) forms: -eth = -s (he loveth = he loves) · -est with “thou” (thou lovest) · spake = spoke.

scavenge

/ˈskæv.ɪndʒ/ verb

Forms scavenges scavenging scavenged

verb (transitive) To collect and remove refuse, or to search through refuse, carrion, or abandoned items for useful material. “We scavenged a couple of old beer cans for our art project.”
verb (transitive) To remove unwanted material from something, especially to purify molten metal by removing impurities.
verb (transitive) To expel the exhaust gases from the cylinder of an internal combustion engine, and draw in air for the next cycle.
verb (intransitive) To feed on carrion or refuse.

Synonyms

Back-formation from scavenger. Compare messenger and passenger.

Sources: Wiktionary · WordNet 3.0 · Webster’s 1913 — from the Wiktionary entry “scavenge”, CC BY-SA 4.0. Details