What is the meaning of Hunt?

noun

• Englishman and Pre-Raphaelite painter (1827-1910.
  • synonyms: Holman Hunt, William Holman Hunt
• United States architect (1827-1895.
  • synonyms: Richard Morris Hunt
• British writer who defended the Romanticism of Keats and Shelley (1784-1859.
  • synonyms: Leigh Hunt, James Henry Leigh Hunt
• An association of huntsmen who hunt for sport.
  • synonyms: hunt club
• An instance of searching for something.
  • usage: "the hunt for submarines"
• The activity of looking thoroughly in order to find something or someone.
  • synonyms: search, hunting
• The work of finding and killing or capturing animals for food or pelts.
  • synonyms: hunting
• The pursuit and killing or capture of wild animals regarded as a sport.
  • synonyms: hunting

verb

• Pursue for food or sport (as of wild animals. )
  • usage: "Goering often hunted wild boars in Poland"; "The dogs are running deer"; "The Duke hunted in these woods"
  • synonyms: run, hunt down, track down
• Pursue or chase relentlessly.
  • usage: "The hunters traced the deer into the woods"; "the detectives hounded the suspect until they found him"
  • synonyms: hound, trace
• Chase away, with as with force.
  • usage: "They hunted the unwanted immigrants out of the neighborhood"
• Yaw back and forth about a flight path.
  • usage: "the plane's nose yawed"
• Oscillate about a desired speed, position, or state to an undesirable extent.
  • usage: "The oscillator hunts about the correct frequency"
• Seek, search for.
  • usage: "She hunted for her reading glasses but was unable to locate them"
• Search (an area) for prey.
  • usage: "The King used to hunt these forests"