noun
- The pursuit and killing or capture of wild animals regarded as a sport.
- synonyms: hunt
- 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.
- synonyms: hunt
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: hunt, 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"
- Chase away, with as with force.
- usage: "They hunted the unwanted immigrants out of the neighborhood"
- synonyms: hunt
- Yaw back and forth about a flight path.
- usage: "the plane's nose yawed"
- synonyms: hunt
- Oscillate about a desired speed, position, or state to an undesirable extent.
- usage: "The oscillator hunts about the correct frequency"
- synonyms: hunt
- Seek, search for.
- usage: "She hunted for her reading glasses but was unable to locate them"
- synonyms: hunt
- Search (an area) for prey.
- usage: "The King used to hunt these forests"
- synonyms: hunt
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