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HUNT

Definition:

1. [noun] Englishman and Pre-Raphaelite painter (1827-1910)
   Synonyms: Hunt, Holman Hunt, William Holman Hunt
   
   
2. [noun] United States architect (1827-1895)
   Synonyms: Hunt, Richard Morris Hunt
   
   
3. [noun] British writer who defended the romanticism of Keats and Shelley (1784-1859)
   Synonyms: Hunt, Leigh Hunt, James Henry Leigh Hunt
   
   
4. [noun] an association of huntsmen who hunt for sport
   Synonyms: club
   
   
5. [noun] an instance of searching for something; "the hunt for submarines"
   
   
6. [noun] the activity of looking thoroughly in order to find something or someone
   Synonyms: search, ing
   
   
7. [noun] the work of finding and killing or capturing animals for food or pelts
   Synonyms: ing
   
   
8. [noun] the pursuit and killing or capture of wild animals regarded as a sport
   Synonyms: ing
   
   
9. [verb] 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"
   Synonyms: run, down, track down
   
   
10. [verb] pursue or chase relentlessly; "The hunters traced the deer into the woods"; "the detectives hounded the suspect until they found the him"
    Synonyms: hound, trace
    
    
11. [verb] chase away, with as with force; "They hunted the the unwanted immigrants out of the neighborhood"
    
    
12. [verb] yaw back and forth about a flight path; "the plane's nose yawed"
    
    
13. [verb] oscillate about a desired speed, position, or state to an undesirable extent; "The oscillator hunts about the correct frequency"
    
    
14. [verb] seek, search for; "She hunted for her reading glasses but was unable to locate them"
    
    
15. [verb] search (an area) for prey; "The King used to hunt these forests"
    
    

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Related Words:

• snipe
• whale
• still-hunt, ambush
• turtle
• drive
• drive
• rabbit
• fowl
• poach
• seal
• ferret
• course
• foxhunt
• tree
• jacklight, jack
• hawk
• falcon
• fowl
• scrounge, forage
• ferret
• exploration
• foraging, forage
• frisk, frisking
• looking, looking for
• manhunt
• quest, seeking
• ransacking, rummage
• scouring
• shakedown
• canned hunt
• stalk, stalking, still hunt
• birdnesting
• predation
• battue
• beagling
• coursing
• deer hunting, deer hunt
• ducking, duck hunting
• fox hunting, foxhunt
• pigsticking

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