Synonyms of the word forage


FORAGEEAT - EATAGE - FEED - FORAGING - GRASS - HUNT - HUNTING - PASTURAGE - PASTURE - PROVENDER - RUN - SCROUNGE - SEARCH

forage

  • n. Fodder for animals, especially cattle and horses.
  • n. An act or instance of foraging.
  • n. (obsolete) The demand for fodder etc by an army from the local population.
  • v. To search for and gather food for animals, particularly cattle and horses.
  • v. To rampage through, gathering and destroying as one goes.
  • v. To rummage.

eat

  • v. To ingest; to be ingested.
  • v. To use up.
  • v. (transitive, informal) To cause (someone) to worry.
  • v. (transitive, business) To take the loss in a transaction.
  • v. (transitive, intransitive) To corrode or erode.
  • v. (transitive, informal, vulgar) To perform oral sex on someone.
  • n. (colloquial) Something to be eaten; a meal; a food item.

eatage

  • n. Edible growth of grass for horses and cattle, especially that of aftermath.

feed

  • v. (transitive) To give (someone or something) food to eat.
  • v. (intransitive) To eat (usually of animals).
  • v. (transitive) To give (someone or something) to (someone or something else) as food.
  • v. (transitive) To give to a machine to be processed.
  • v. (figuratively) To satisfy, gratify, or minister to (a sense, taste, desire, etc.).
  • v. To supply with something.
  • v. To graze; to cause to be cropped by feeding, as herbage by cattle.
  • v. (sports, transitive) To pass to.
  • v. (phonology, of a phonological rule) To create the environment where another phonological rule can apply.
  • n. (uncountable) Food given to (especially herbivorous) animals.
  • n. Something supplied continuously.
  • n. The part of a machine that supplies the material to be operated upon.
  • n. (countable) A gathering to eat, especially in quantity.
  • n. (Internet) Encapsulated online content, such as news or a blog, that can be subscribed to.
  • v. simple past tense and past participle of fee.

foraging

  • v. present participle of forage.
  • n. The act of searching for food.

grass

  • n. (countable, uncountable) Any plant of the family Poaceae, characterized by leaves that arise from nodes…
  • n. (countable) Various plants not in family Poaceae that resemble grasses.
  • n. (uncountable) A lawn.
  • n. (uncountable, slang) Marijuana.
  • n. (countable, slang) An informer, police informer; one who betrays a group (of criminals, etc) to the authorities.
  • n. (uncountable, physics) Sharp, closely spaced discontinuities in the trace of a cathode-ray tube, produced…
  • n. (uncountable, slang) Noise on an A-scope or similar type of radar display.
  • n. The season of fresh grass; spring.
  • n. (obsolete, figuratively) That which is transitory.
  • v. (transitive) To lay out on the grass; to knock down (an opponent etc.).
  • v. (transitive or intransitive, slang) To act as a grass or informer, to betray; to report on (criminals…
  • v. (transitive) To cover with grass or with turf.
  • v. (transitive) To expose, as flax, on the grass for bleaching, etc.
  • v. (transitive) To bring to the grass or ground; to land.

hunt

  • v. (transitive, intransitive) To chase down prey and (usually) kill it.
  • v. (transitive, intransitive) To try to find something; search (for).
  • v. (transitive) To drive; to chase; with down, from, away, etc.
  • v. (transitive) To use or manage (dogs, horses, etc.) in hunting.
  • v. (transitive) To use or traverse in pursuit of game.
  • v. (bell-ringing, transitive) To move or shift the order of (a bell) in a regular course of changes.
  • v. (bell-ringing, intransitive) To shift up and down in order regularly.
  • v. (engineering, intransitive) To be in a state of instability of movement or forced oscillation, as a governor…
  • n. The act of hunting.
  • n. A hunting expedition.
  • n. An organization devoted to hunting, or the people belonging to such an organization (capitalized if the…

hunting

  • n. Chasing and killing animals for sport or to get food.
  • n. Looking for something, especially for a job or flat.
  • n. (engineering) Fluctuating around a central value without stabilizing.
  • v. present participle of hunt.

pasturage

  • n. A pasture; land that is used for pasture.
  • n. The grass or other vegetation eaten by livestock and found in a pasture.
  • n. The right to graze livestock on a pasture.

pasture

  • n. Land, specifically, an open field, on which livestock is kept for feeding.
  • n. Ground covered with grass or herbage, used or suitable for the grazing of livestock.
  • n. (obsolete) Food, nourishment.
  • v. (transitive) To move animals into a pasture.
  • v. (intransitive) To graze.
  • v. (transitive) To feed, especially on growing grass; to supply grass as food for.

provender

  • n. Food, especially for livestock.
  • n. An edible material that provides sustenance.

run

  • v. (vertebrates) To move swiftly.
  • v. (fluids) To flow.
  • v. (nautical, of a vessel) To sail before the wind, in distinction from reaching or sailing close-hauled.
  • v. (social) To carry out an activity.
  • v. To extend or persist, statically or dynamically, through space or time.
  • v. (transitive) To execute or carry out a plan, procedure, or program.
  • v. To pass or go quickly in thought or conversation.
  • v. (copulative) To become different in a way mentioned (usually to become worse).
  • v. (transitive) To cost a large amount of money.
  • v. (intransitive) Of stitches or stitched clothing, to unravel.
  • v. To pursue in thought; to carry in contemplation.
  • v. To cause to enter; to thrust.
  • v. To drive or force; to cause, or permit, to be driven.
  • v. To cause to be drawn; to mark out; to indicate; to determine.
  • v. To encounter or incur (a danger or risk).
  • v. To put at hazard; to venture; to risk.
  • v. To tease with sarcasms and ridicule.
  • v. To sew (a seam) by passing the needle through material in a continuous line, generally taking a series…
  • v. To control or have precedence in a card game.
  • v. To be in form thus, as a combination of words.
  • v. (archaic) To be popularly known; to be generally received.
  • v. To have growth or development.
  • v. To tend, as to an effect or consequence; to incline.
  • v. To have a legal course; to be attached; to continue in force, effect, or operation; to follow; to go in…
  • v. (golf) To strike (the ball) in such a way as to cause it to run along the ground, as when approaching…
  • v. (video games, rare) To speedrun.
  • n. Act or instance of running, of moving rapidly using the feet.
  • n. Act or instance of hurrying (to or from a place) (not necessarily by foot); dash or errand, trip.
  • n. A pleasure trip.
  • n. Flight, instance or period of fleeing.
  • n. Migration (of fish).
  • n. A group of fish that migrate, or ascend a river for the purpose of spawning.
  • n. (skiing, bobsledding) A single trip down a hill, as in skiing and bobsledding.
  • n. A (regular) trip or route.
  • n. The route taken while running or skiing.
  • n. The distance sailed by a ship.
  • n. A voyage.
  • n. An enclosure for an animal; a track or path along which something can travel.
  • n. (Australia, New Zealand) Rural landholding for farming, usually for running sheep, and operated by a runholder.
  • n. State of being current; currency; popularity.
  • n. A continuous period (of time) marked by a trend; a period marked by a continuing trend.
  • n. (card games) A sequence of cards in a suit in a card game.
  • n. (music) A rapid passage in music, especially along a scale.
  • n. A trial.
  • n. A flow of liquid; a leak.
  • n. (chiefly eastern Midland US, especially Ohio, Pennsylvania, West Virginia) A small creek or part thereof…
  • n. A production quantity (such as in a factory).
  • n. The length of a showing of a play, film, TV series, etc.
  • n. A quick pace, faster than a walk.
  • n. A sudden series of demands on a bank or other financial institution, especially characterised by great…
  • n. Any sudden large demand for something.
  • n. The top of a step on a staircase, also called a tread, as opposed to the rise.
  • n. The horizontal length of a set of stairs.
  • n. A standard or unexceptional group or category.
  • n. (baseball) A score (point scored) by a runner making it around all the bases and over home plate.
  • n. (cricket) A point scored.
  • n. (American football) A gain of a (specified) distance; a running play.
  • n. Unrestricted use of.
  • n. A line of knit stitches that have unravelled, particularly in a nylon stocking.
  • n. (nautical) The stern of the underwater body of a ship from where it begins to curve upward and inward.
  • n. (construction) Horizontal dimension of a slope.
  • n. (mining) The horizontal distance to which a drift may be carried, either by licence of the proprietor…
  • n. A pair or set of millstones.
  • n. (video games) A playthrough.
  • n. (slang) A period of extended (usually daily) drug use.
  • n. (golf) The movement communicated to a golf ball by running it.
  • n. (golf) The distance a ball travels after touching the ground from a stroke.
  • n. (video games, rare) A speedrun.
  • adj. In a liquid state; melted or molten.
  • adj. Cast in a mould.
  • adj. Exhausted; depleted (especially with "down" or "out").
  • adj. (of a fish) Travelled, migrated; having made a migration or a spawning run.

scrounge

  • v. To hunt about, especially for something of nominal value; to scavenge or glean.
  • v. To obtain something of moderate or inconsequential value from another.
  • n. Someone who scrounges; a scrounger.

search

  • n. An attempt to find something.
  • n. The act of searching in general.
  • v. (transitive) To look in (a place) for something.
  • v. (intransitive, followed by "for") To look thoroughly.
  • v. (transitive, now rare) To look for, seek.
  • v. (transitive, obsolete) To probe or examine (a wound).
  • v. (obsolete) To examine; to try; to put to the test.

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