What is the meaning of hunting?

noun

  • The pursuit and killing or capture of wild animals regarded as a sport.
  • The activity of looking thoroughly in order to find something or someone.
  • The work of finding and killing or capturing animals for food or pelts.

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"
  • Pursue or chase relentlessly.
    • usage: "The hunters traced the deer into the woods"; "the detectives hounded the suspect until they found him"
  • 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"
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APAWordNet. (2010). hunting. Retrieved September 21, 2026, from http://smartdefine.org/hunting/definitions/1285960
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