how to pronounce forage

/ˈfɔːɹɪdʒ/

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forage is pronounced in two syllables

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An example use of forage in a speech by a native speaker of american english:

“… leaf cutter ants forage for sodium but …”

meanings of forage

verb:

To rampage through, gathering and destroying as one goes.
To rummage.
To seek out and eat food.
To search for and gather food for animals, particularly cattle and horses.

noun:

An act or instance of foraging.
The demand for fodder etc by an army from the local population.
Fodder for animals, especially cattle and horses.

forage frequency in english - C2+ level of CEFR

the word forage occurs in english on average 1.2 times per one million words; this frequency warrants it to be in the study list for C2+ level of language mastery according to CEFR, the Common European Framework of Reference.

topics forage can be related to

it is hard to perfectly classify words into specific topics since each word can have many context of its use, but our machine-learning models believe that forage can be often used in the following areas:

1) life, nature, and living environment;