Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Estimated Frequency) of noun forage
2 senses of forage
Sense 1
eatage, forage, pasture, pasturage, grass -- (bulky food like grass or hay for browsing or grazing horses or cattle)
=> fodder -- (coarse food (especially for livestock) composed of entire plants or the leaves and stalks of a cereal crop)
Sense 2
foraging, forage -- (the act of searching for food and provisions)
=> search, hunt, hunting -- (the activity of looking thoroughly in order to find something or someone)
Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Estimated Frequency) of verb forage
2 senses of forage
Sense 1
scrounge, forage -- (collect or look around for (food))
=> hunt, run, hunt down, track down -- (pursue for food or sport (as of wild animals); "Goering often hunted wild boars in Poland"; "The dogs are running deer"; "The Duke hunted in these woods")
Sense 2
forage -- (wander and feed; "The animals forage in the woods")
=> feed, eat -- (take in food; used of animals only; "This dog doesn't eat certain kinds of meat"; "What do whales eat?")