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hunt

/ hunt /
noun/verb

Definitions & Examples

noun Sense 1
the pursuit and killing or capture of wild animals regarded as a sport
Type of:
outdoor sport field sport blood sport
Kinds of:
battue beagling coursing deer hunting deer hunt
Derived:
run hunt down track down hound trace
verb Sense 2
yaw back and forth about a flight path
"the plane''s nose yawed"
Type of:
yaw
Usage Patterns:
Somebody ----s
Somebody ----s something
Domain:
airplane aeroplane plane
verb Sense 3
oscillate about a desired speed, position, or state to an undesirable extent
"The oscillator hunts about the correct frequency"
Type of:
oscillate vibrate
Usage Patterns:
Somebody ----s
verb Sense 4
seek, search for
"She hunted for her reading glasses but was unable to locate them"
Type of:
search seek look for
Derived:
search hunting hunter
Usage Patterns:
Somebody ----s somebody into V-ing something
verb Sense 5
search (an area) for prey
"The King used to hunt these forests"
Type of:
search look
Derived:
hunting hunter huntsman
Verb group:
run hunt down track down
Usage Patterns:
Somebody ----s somebody into V-ing something
verb Sense 6
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"
Type of:
capture catch
Kinds of:
snipe whale still-hunt ambush turtle
Derived:
hunting hunter huntsman
Verb group:
run
Usage Patterns:
Somebody ----s something
Somebody ----s somebody into V-ing something
Somebody ----s something with something
noun Sense 7
Englishman and Pre-Raphaelite painter (1827-1910)
Type of:
Pre-Raphaelite
noun Sense 8
United States architect (1827-1895)
Type of:
architect designer
noun Sense 9
British writer who defended the romanticism of Keats and Shelley (1784-1859)
Type of:
writer author
noun Sense 10
an association of huntsmen who hunt for sport
Type of:
club society guild
noun Sense 11
an instance of searching for something
"the hunt for submarines"
Type of:
search
noun Sense 12
the work of finding and killing or capturing animals for food or pelts
Type of:
labor labour toil
Kinds of:
canned hunt stalk stalking still hunt birdnesting
Derived:
run hunt down track down hound trace
verb Sense 13
chase away, with as with force
"They hunted the the unwanted immigrants out of the neighborhood"
Type of:
rout out drive out force out
Usage Patterns:
Somebody ----s something with something
Somebody ----s on something
noun Sense 14
the activity of looking thoroughly in order to find something or someone
Type of:
activity
Kinds of:
exploration foraging forage frisk frisking
Derived:
search look seek look for
verb Sense 15
pursue or chase relentlessly
"The hunters traced the deer into the woods"
"the detectives hounded the suspect until they found the him"
Type of:
chase chase after trail
Kinds of:
ferret
Derived:
hunting hunter huntsman hound hound dog
Usage Patterns:
Somebody ----s somebody into V-ing something
Somebody ----s something with something
Semantic Complexity
100%
Sense Count
15
Total Synonyms
0
Total Relationships
85
Times Searched
3
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Related Words

outdoor sport field sport blood sport battue beagling coursing deer hunting deer hunt yaw oscillate vibrate search