Synonyms of scrounging

scrounging

verb

present participle of scrounge

as in earning

to get with great difficulty

scrounged up the money to pay his dental bills

Synonyms & Similar Words

• earning
• obtaining
• procuring
• squeezing
• acquiring
• securing
• wringing
• scraping (up or together)
• wresting
• attaining
• eking (out)
• gaining
• drawing
• landing

Example Sentences

Recent Examples of scrounging

There is scrounging to pay for flights to meet with executives in New York City and/or Atlanta. — Doreen St. Félix, New Yorker, 18 Aug. 2026

Instead, McGrath says, she has been sentenced to a decade of scrounging for work that doesn't require a background check. — Erin Moriarty, CBS News, 9 Aug. 2026

Without Medicaid coverage, Noon paid hundreds of dollars out of pocket for prescriptions, after scrounging for discount coupons. — Rachana Pradhan, NPR, 20 July 2026

That’s why ticket prices for the match are creeping ever higher, and why fans are scrounging about for funds to get them in the building. — Henry Bushnell, New York Times, 13 July 2026

Everyone else is scrounging for the scraps. — HubSpot, 1 June 2026

Keep Trash Closed The outdoor trash can be another source for food that needs to be sealed tightly and moved indoors to prevent squirrels from scrounging in the bins. — Ashlyn Needham, The Spruce, 28 May 2026

Academic journals struggled to put out issues, stifled by high printing costs and staff layoffs, scrounging for enough articles to fill their pages and paying subscribers to read them. — Literary Hub, 1 Apr. 2026

Now that all of show business has sunk to Valerie’s level of scrounging for scraps, there’s no one better qualified to rally the troops. — Alison Herman, Variety, 22 Mar. 2026