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Noun
  • the pursuit and killing or capture of wild animals regarded as a sport
  • the work of finding and killing or capturing animals for food or pelts
  • the activity of looking thoroughly in order to find something or someone
  • an instance of searching for something
    • the hunt for submarines
  • an association of huntsmen who hunt for sport
  • British writer who defended the Romanticism of Keats and Shelley (1784-1859)
  • United States architect (1827-1895)
  • Englishman and Pre-Raphaelite painter (1827-1910)
Verb
  • search (an area) for prey
    • The King used to hunt these forests
  • seek, search for
    • She hunted for her reading glasses but was unable to locate them
  • oscillate about a desired speed, position, or state to an undesirable extent
    • The oscillator hunts about the correct frequency
  • yaw back and forth about a flight path
    • the plane's nose yawed
  • chase away, with as with force
    • They hunted the unwanted immigrants out of the neighborhood
  • pursue or chase relentlessly
    • The hunters traced the deer into the woods
    • the detectives hounded the suspect until they found him
  • 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
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