Definition for Foraging:

• Collecting provision for horses and cattle; wandering in search of food.

Synonyms for Foraging:

• adj.

  •browsing (adjective)
  • grazing.
  •grazing (adjective)
  • feeding,
  • uprooting,
  • Champing,
  • Masticating,
  • Battening,
  • Nibbling,
  • biting,
  • Cropping,
  • Munching,
  • Ruminating.

• n.

  •act (noun)
  • forage.

• v.

  •comb (verb)
  • investigate,
  • beat the bushes,
  • sift,
  • probe,
  • go through with fine-tooth comb,
  • examine,
  • look high and low,
  • turn upside down,
  • scrutinize,
  • screen,
  • search high heaven,
  • sweep,
  • leave no stone unturned,
  • finecomb,
  • turn inside out,
  • inspect.
  •forage (verb)
  • comb,
  • ransack,
  • raid,
  • grub,
  • scrounge,
  • beat,
  • seek,
  • rummage,
  • plunder,
  • pilfer,
  • fine-tooth-comb,
  • rake,
  • explore,
  • scour,
  • ravage,
  • cast about.
  •graze (verb)
  • eat,
  • uproot,
  • bite,
  • crop,
  • masticate,
  • champ,
  • nibble,
  • crunch,
  • pasture,
  • browse,
  • ruminate,
  • munch,
  • gnaw.
  •grub (verb)
  • clean,
  • ferret,
  • burrow,
  • root,
  • excavate,
  • unearth,
  • poke,
  • break,
  • delve,
  • prepare,
  • spade,
  • pull up,
  • clear,
  • shovel.
  •hunt (verb)
  • grope,
  • go after,
  • trail,
  • fish for,
  • drag,
  • look all over hell,
  • trace,
  • inquire,
  • nose around,
  • question,
  • be on the lookout,
  • ferret out,
  • run down,
  • interrogate,
  • winnow,
  • try to find,
  • quest,
  • prowl,
  • scratch around.
  •plunder (verb)
  • spoil,
  • loft,
  • kip,
  • gut,
  • requisition,
  • rob,
  • knock over,
  • lay waste,
  • maraud,
  • relieve,
  • rifle,
  • pillage,
  • appropriate,
  • Depredate,
  • salvage,
  • stick up,
  • knock off,
  • Smash and Grab,
  • snatch,
  • burn,
  • strip,
  • lift,
  • devastate,
  • grab,
  • liberate,
  • rip off,
  • moonlight requisition,
  • prey,
  • fleece.
  •raid (verb)
  • break in,
  • heat,
  • tip over,
  • strike,
  • torpedo,
  • strafe,
  • blockade,
  • pirate,
  • fire on,
  • Spoliate,
  • overrun,
  • assault,
  • bomb,
  • fall upon,
  • descend on,
  • assail,
  • slough,
  • sally forth,
  • swoop,
  • lean on,
  • sally,
  • lean against,
  • storm,
  • charge,
  • bombard,
  • shell,
  • invade,
  • breach,
  • waste,
  • march on,
  • inroad.
  •ravage (verb)
  • demolish,
  • sink,
  • smash,
  • wreak havoc,
  • capture,
  • desecrate,
  • trash,
  • raze,
  • impair,
  • prostrate,
  • consume,
  • pull down,
  • extinguish,
  • disorganize,
  • crush,
  • rape,
  • exterminate,
  • shatter,
  • wreck,
  • leave in ruins,
  • overthrow,
  • trample,
  • annihilate,
  • damage,
  • wrest,
  • dismantle,
  • desolate,
  • break up,
  • disrupt,
  • sweep away,
  • stamp out,
  • ruin,
  • overwhelm,
  • seize.
  •searching (verb)
  • scouring,
  • peeking,
  • combing,
  • prying,
  • seeking,
  • probing,
  • winnowing,
  • rifling,
  • Peering,
  • looking for,
  • Rummaging,
  • sifting,
  • searching.

• Other synonyms:

  •adj.
  • eating,
  • foraging,
  • Gnawing,
  • Pasturing.
  •n.
  • hobby,
  • hunt,
  • hunting,
  • search.

Paraphrases for Foraging:

• Equivalence

  • Adjective
    forage.
  • Noun, singular or mass
    forage.

• Independent

  • Adjective
    nutritional, dietary, food-related, recharge.
  • Noun, singular or mass
    kills, grazing, food, fodder, browsing, nutrition, diet, powering, fuelling, 'alimentation, dietary, herbivory, harvesting, recharge.
  • Verb, gerund or present participle
    fostering, searching, replicating, informing, Sustaining, nourishing, seeking, contributing, Proving, striving, Chasing, Seeding, pursuing, fueling, detecting, supplying, stoking, compiling, sealing, climbing, Fanning, looking, Boosting, eating, powering, fuelling, harvesting.

• Other Related

  • Adjective
    feeding, eating, feed.
  • Noun, singular or mass
    feeding, eating, feeds, feed.
  • Verb, gerund or present participle
    feeding.

Foraging Sentence Examples:

• These are well worn paths, smoothed by use, and cleared of obstructions, and the rat tends to keep to them in its foraging expeditions.

• Looking cautiously out, I saw him in the garden, foraging about under cover of the bushes, near the ground, and there for some time I watched him.

Hyponym for Foraging:

• n.

  • act
    hunt, hunting, search.