Nature
Synonyms for forage
The synonym for forage recorded in this bank is scrounge, in the sense "to search widely for food". Below it sits the sentence that fixes that meaning, the same sentence with the swap made, and the words that only look close.
The synonym for forage
- scroungeverb, in the sense "to search widely for food"
A single pair, which is what a single sense earns. Words further down the page are near misses and are not synonyms for forage.
to search widely for food
Squirrels forage for acorns before winter sets in.
The true synonym
scrounge
Same sentence, swapped: Squirrels scrounge for acorns before winter sets in.
Close but different
These three are the other tiles the game puts on screen for this sense, and the note above says why the closest of them fails. None is a synonym for forage in the sentence quoted.
- graze
- hibernate
- migrate
Where forage turns up in the game
forage is the word under test in one puzzle, at Tier 2, Treeline. It also sits on the board as one of the three wrong tiles in four other puzzles, where the answer is a different word entirely.
The puzzles where forage is the trap
- carrionnoun, Tier 2, Treeline. The answer there is remains, in the sense "the decaying flesh of a dead animal, especially as food for scavengers", and forage is on the board beside it.
- moltverb, Tier 2, Treeline. The answer there is shed, in the sense "to shed feathers, hair, skin, or an outer shell periodically", and forage is one of the three tiles that lose.
- scamperverb, Tier 2, Treeline. The answer there is scurry, in the sense "to run with quick light steps, especially in a playful or hurried way", with forage sitting one tile away.
- gambolverb, Tier 4, High Camp. The answer there is cavort, in the sense "to run or jump about playfully", and forage is one of the three tiles that lose.
Play forage
The bank on this page is the bank the game plays from, so forage reaches you as a board rather than a definition: the sentence first, four tiles, and the meaning after you choose.
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Closest first: other nature words at Treeline, then the same tier across the rest of the library.
The wrong tile gets explained too
Synonym Stack plays from this exact bank. forage carries 1 written reason line, and the game shows them the moment a round ends, whichever tile you tapped.