forage
forage is a 6-letter English word with 8 senses as noun, intransitive verb, transitive verb, and verb in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: The act of foraging; search for provisions, etc. Face value is 10 in Scrabble and 11 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.
Definitions
- noun. The act of foraging; search for provisions, etc.
- noun. Food of any kind for animals, especially for horses and cattle, as grass, pasture, hay, corn, oats.
- intransitive verb. To wander or rove in search of food; to collect food, esp. forage, for horses and cattle by feeding on or stripping the country; to ravage; to feed on spoil.
- transitive verb. To strip of provisions; to supply with forage; as, to forage steeds.
- noun. the act of searching for food and provisions
- noun. bulky food like grass or hay for browsing or grazing horses or cattle
- verb. wander and feed
"The animals forage in the woods"
- verb. collect or look around for (food)
Synonyms
foraging, eatage, grass, pasturage, pasture, scrounge
Common word forms
foraged, forager, forages, foraging, foragement
Words from these letters
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