MEANING
To search through an area for food or needed resources.
Use it for
Words that belong together
- forage for food
- forage in woodland
On the page
The travelers foraged along the abandoned gardens.
Word forms
- Base
- forage
- Past tense
- foraged
- Past participle
- foraged
- Present participle
- foraging
Full tense & aspect guide
- Present
- forage
- Present continuous
- am/is/are foraging
- Present perfect
- have/has foraged
- Present perfect continuous
- have/has been foraging
- Past
- foraged
- Past continuous
- was/were foraging
- Past perfect
- had foraged
- Past perfect continuous
- had been foraging
- Future
- will forage
- Future continuous
- will be foraging
- Future perfect
- will have foraged
- Future perfect continuous
- will have been foraging
Choose the auxiliary that agrees with your subject. These are constructions of one word, not separate entries.
Usage notes
Primary category: literary / elevated general. Forms: forage; forages; foraged; foraged; foraging Legacy lexical fields mirror sense 1 only. Use numbered sense fields for all meanings. Established modern English lexical item. No separate regional spelling or grammatical inflection entry. Writing functions: description, character, dialogue. Commonness: moderately common. Third-person singular: forages.
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