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| 1. | [ verb ] pursue for food or sport (as of wild animals) | |
| Synonyms: | track_down hunt_down run | |
| Examples: | "Goering often hunted wild boars in Poland" "The dogs are running deer" "The Duke hunted in these woods" |
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| Related terms: | capture scrounge forage poach still-hunt snipe ferret drive seal drive whale snipe tree jacklight falcon fowl rabbit course turtle hawk foxhunt fowl run hunter | |
| 2. | [ verb ] pursue or chase relentlessly | |
| Synonyms: | trace hound | |
| Examples: | "The hunters traced the deer into the woods" "the detectives hounded the suspect until they found the him" |
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| Related terms: | chase ferret hound | |
| 3. | [ noun ] Last name, frequency rank in the U.S. is 148 | |
| 4. | [ noun ] (psychology) a search for an alternative that meets cognitive criteria | |
| Synonyms: | pursuit quest pursuance | |
| Examples: | "the pursuit of love" "life is more than the pursuance of fame" "a quest for wealth" |
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| Related terms: | search wild-goose_chase quest_for | |
| 5. | [ noun ] an association of huntsmen who hunt for sport | |
| Synonyms: | hunt_club | |
| Related terms: | club | |
| 6. | [ noun ] (work) the work of finding and killing or capturing animals for food or pelts | |
| Synonyms: | hunting | |
| Related terms: | labor birdnesting stalk predation canned_hunt | |
| 7. | [ noun ] (psychology) an instance of searching for something | |
| Examples: | "the hunt for submarines" |
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| Related terms: | search | |
| 8. | [ noun ] (writing) British writer who defended the romanticism of Keats and Shelley (1784-1859) | |
| Synonyms: | leigh_hunt james_henry_leigh_hunt | |
| Related terms: | writer | |
| 9. | [ noun ] (architecture) United States architect (1827-1895) | |
| Synonyms: | richard_morris_hunt | |
| Related terms: | architect | |
| 10. | [ noun ] (fine art) English Pre-Raphaelite painter (1827-1910) | |
| Synonyms: | william_holman_hunt holman_hunt | |
| Related terms: | Pre-Raphaelite | |
| 11. | [ verb ] seek, search for | |
| Examples: | "She hunted for her reading glasses but was unable to locate them" |
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| Related terms: | search search | |
| 12. | [ verb ] search (an area) for prey | |
| Examples: | "The King used to hunt these forests" |
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| Related terms: | search hunter | |
| 13. | [ verb ] yaw back and forth about a flight path (as of airplanes and rockets) | |
| Related terms: | yaw airplane | |
| 14. | [ verb ] chase away, with as with force | |
| Examples: | "They hunted the unwanted immigrants out of the neighborhood" |
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| Related terms: | rout_out | |
| 15. | [ verb ] oscillate about a desired speed, position, or state to an undesirable extent | |
| Examples: | "The oscillator hunts about the correct frequency" |
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| Related terms: | oscillate | |
| 16. | [ noun ] the activity of looking thoroughly in order to find something or someone | |
| Synonyms: | search hunting searching | |
| Related terms: | activity exploration ransacking scouring foraging quest shakedown frisk looking manhunt dowsing search | |
| 17. | [ noun ] (sport) the pursuit and killing or capture of wild animals regarded as a sport | |
| Synonyms: | hunting | |
| Related terms: | outdoor_sport bloodsport blood_sport ducking pigsticking beagling battue deer_hunt foxhunt coursing trap bag gin batfowl hound | |
| Similar spelling: |
Hunte Hundt humate Hund haunt |
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