mooched

verb

past tense of mooch
1
as in begged
to live by relying on someone else's generosity or hospitality without sharing in the cost or responsibility he's always mooching off of his friends, even though he can easily pay his own way

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2
as in sneaked
to move about in a sly or secret manner I suspect she's mooching around in the background and keeping an eye on us

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3
as in wandered
to move about from place to place aimlessly kids on vacation mooching about the house and looking for something to do

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Recent Examples of Synonyms for mooched
  1. begged
  2. sneaked
  3. wandered
  4. lurked
  5. roamed
  6. slipped
  7. strolled
  8. drifted
Verb
  • One day, the lion caught the mouse and was about to kill it when the mouse begged for mercy.
    — Chicago Tribune, Chicago Tribune, 6 Nov. 2026
  • Rian begged Macdara to come with him up the mountain overnight, and to not tell a living soul.
    — ABC News, ABC News, 5 Nov. 2026
Definition of begged
Verb
  • Somewhere in New York, Chinese spies snuck in too-thick ballot paper.
    — Pat Beall, Sun Sentinel, 6 Nov. 2026
  • Boise State snuck into the final spot of the rankings with an overall record of 7-1 and an unblemished 4-0 record in Pac-12 play.
    — Shaun Goodwin, Idaho Statesman, 4 Nov. 2026
Definition of sneaked
Verb
  • Drought and a late freeze made this a tough year for Colorado's black bears, and hungry bears wandered into neighborhoods across the state looking for food.
    — Anna Alejo, CBS News, 6 Nov. 2026
  • One evening, after a day of rain, Steven and I wandered in the Giardino della Misericordia, close to our apartment.
    — Artforum, Artforum, 4 Nov. 2026
Definition of wandered
Verb
  • In the rugged mountains of Afghanistan, on the morning of March 11, 2013, something lurked just below the surface of a young Afghan man, a boy, really.
    — Ron Farina, Hartford Courant, 1 Nov. 2026
  • Like fossils of prehistoric life, the evidence of all these past relationships lurked in the debris of our Connecticut household.
    — Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 26 Oct. 2026
Definition of lurked
Verb
  • The burial belonged to high-ranking members of the Scythians, a horse-riding culture that roamed the Eurasian steppe.
    — Maria Mocerino, Interesting Engineering, 8 Nov. 2026
  • For 42 years, an Oak Park man who had immigrated decades ago from Italy roamed residential streets on Chicago’s South Side, pushing an old-fashioned green and red cart outfitted with a sharpening stone.
    — Susan DeGrane, Chicago Tribune, 7 Nov. 2026
Definition of roamed
Verb
  • An early 1990s recession clobbered Nasdaq, but home prices slipped only modestly, down 1% annually.
    — Jonathan Lansner, Oc Register, 11 Nov. 2026
  • The observation comes after the Nasdaq Composite slipped earlier this week, as losses in Nvidia led tech stocks lower.
    — Liz Napolitano,Hugh Leask,Lee Ying Shan,Fred Imbert, CNBC, 10 Nov. 2026
Definition of slipped
Verb
  • Cara Hile and her mother, Jeri, strolled up to a two-story home in Brookside Saturday, pamphlets in-hand.
    — Kacen Bayless, Kansas City Star, 3 Nov. 2026
  • Jackson’s blind was situated on rolling private farmland, and late that afternoon a fawn deer strolled down a mountain trail toward Jackson shortly before nightfall.
    — Bob McNally, Outdoor Life, 29 Oct. 2026
Definition of strolled
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  • But as the boat drifted nearby under a vast, cloudless sky, a pod of pink river dolphins broke the glassy, reflective surface just yards away, their rosy dorsal fins glistening in the late-afternoon sun.
    — Liam Hess, Vogue, 5 Nov. 2026
  • The big rig traveling in the far right northbound lane of the highway drifted, for unknown reasons, into the right shoulder and hit both vehicles.
    — Darrell Smith, Sacbee.com, 5 Nov. 2026
Definition of drifted
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“Mooched.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/mooched. Accessed 14 Nov. 2026.

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