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hunt English

Meaning hunt meaning

What does hunt mean?
Definitions in simple English

hunt Verb

— If you hunt for something, you look for it very carefully. We hunted for new clothing at the mall. — If you hunt for animals, you look for them to catch or kill them. My father hunted rabbits when I was a child.

hunt Noun

— A hunt is a search for something or someone. The police were on a hunt to find the murderer. — A hunt is a search for animal(s) to catch or kill.

hunt

— verb (= run) 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 — verb (= hound, trace) pursue or chase relentlessly The hunters traced the deer into the woods the detectives hounded the suspect until they found him — verb yaw back and forth about a flight path the plane's nose yawed — verb oscillate about a desired speed, position, or state to an undesirable extent The oscillator hunts about the correct frequency — verb chase away, with as with force They hunted the unwanted immigrants out of the neighborhood — verb search (an area) for prey The King used to hunt these forests — verb seek, search for She hunted for her reading glasses but was unable to locate them — noun an association of huntsmen who hunt for sport — noun an instance of searching for something the hunt for submarines — noun the pursuit and killing or capture of wild animals regarded as a sport — noun the work of finding and killing or capturing animals for food or pelts — noun (= search) the activity of looking thoroughly in order to find something or someone

Hunt

— noun British writer who defended the Romanticism of Keats and Shelley (1784-1859) — noun United States architect (1827-1895) — noun Englishman and Pre-Raphaelite painter (1827-1910)

Synonyms hunt synonyms

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hunt English » English

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Hunt English » English

William Holman Hunt Richard Morris Hunt Leigh Hunt James Henry Leigh Hunt Holman Hunt speed rush precipitateness precipitancy precipitance hurry hurriedness hunt hastiness haste goings-on chase bustle

Topics hunt topics

What do people use hunt to talk about?
Work and occupation Hunt and fish

Hunt
Universe, creation Animal

Animal actions
Work and occupation Animal husbandry Domesticated animal

Cat
Work and occupation

Hunt and fish

  • What general words refer to hunting wild animals?
    hunt trap fish
Work and occupation Hunt and fish

Things done to animals
Physical actions Move

Pursue
Social behavior Government Government functions Police

Arrest
Work and occupation Hunt and fish

Hunting birds
Physical actions Move Pursue

Catch, capture
Physical actions Hide

Search

Conjugation hunt conjugation

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hunt · verb

Examples hunt examples

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Simple sentences

He likes to hunt.
A hunt is on for the runaway.
I hunt elk in my leisure-time.
The witch hunt has begun.
I hunt after flies.
Owls hunt at night.
I cannot set a trap here. It's forbidden to hunt.
I can teach you how to hunt.
Do you not know how to hunt with anything but nets?
Tom didn't hunt.
Tom likes to hunt.
They had a good hunt.
How's the job hunt?

Movie subtitles

He wasn't here to impress the locals, much less to hunt giraffe.
Get ready, because the known universe is about to take you on a hunt for life out there.
Over the next hour, we'll show you how the hunt for alien life has dramatically changed over the past few decades.
We're closer than ever to finding the answers, because scientists have picked up the scent in this cosmic hunt.
In the hunt for alien life, scientists are focusing their efforts on finding small, rocky planets like Earth.
The hunt for life in the cosmos is intensifying.
Who's ready to hunt some dragons?
I was passing through on my way to the ranges for a pig hunt with a few lads from HQ.
Arrangements are made for the hunt in Count Schwartzenberg's castle.
After lunch, a hunt is scheduled.
The man hunt.
Princess Makeda sends guards down to the Nile, to hunt for the Greek slave, Theonis.
Tronje, announce to the people of Burgundy that I invite everybody to a royal hunt to kill a mad dog and a ravening.
Well then, the upcoming hunt might easily turn into a chase for men.
With all due respect, I'm not sure I'd like to join the hunt.
If ever I find them hellhounds, I'll sure make 'em hunt their holes.
Go out on a buffalo hunt. Me?
The hunt was a great success.
Think I'll go hunt up old Zeke.
They say you're going to hunt down Flack and Lopez.
But what do you hunt here?
My life has been one glorious hunt.
Naturally, I continued to hunt all over the world.
Even to this day I prefer to hunt with it. but alas, even that was too deadly.
Here on my island. I hunt the most dangerous game.
He won't even let you see his trophy room. till he gets ready to take you on a hunt of the great whatsit.
He talks of wine and women as a prelude to the hunt.
I always bring them here before the hunt.
They want to try to keep the relationship going as much as they can, but they know that it's going to be tricky because Allison's situation with her family. The Argents hunt werewolves.
TO HUNT THIS GUY DOWN.
Invariably, Mr. Rainsford, invariably they choose to hunt.
Say you will hunt with me.
Hunt men?
Say you will hunt with me!

News and current affairs

But as they hunt down and kill violent domestic extremists, they are quietly tightening the noose around all those who want moderate reform.
The witch-hunt underway - with politicians, regulators, and even the White House seeking to save their political skins - is, indeed, essential.
The ritual witch-hunt now underway may be the only way for bosses to regain their bearings.
The whole world can hunt these criminals down.
Most peaceful Chechens have not fully turned their backs on the bandits, perhaps because the bandits hunt down those who collaborate with Russian authorities.
A witch hunt is under way against opposition politicians.
The global economic downturn has led most of the world to rally together, not only in the hunt for the terrorists, but in reinforcing global cooperation.
But it is equally unlikely that this achievement will end the insatiable hunt for more money. Let's assume, cautiously, that we are two-thirds of the way towards Keynes's target.
Now, under President Roh Moo-hyun, a new Truth and Reconciliation Law has not only stimulated a thorough airing of historical grievances, but has also led to a hunt for past collaborators.
Instead, we should perhaps stop shooting the 300 polar bears we hunt each year.
But, while people should certainly be punished for acts of violence, going after people purely for what they think - or, worse, what we think they think - has the air of a witch-hunt.
The US cannot alone hunt down every suspected Al Qaeda leader.
Even powerful America cannot hunt down everyone everywhere who employs violence as a political weapon.
The Court's decision thus attempts to run with the hare and hunt with the hounds.
Politicians, too, tend to have their moral compasses calibrated to the relentless hunt for votes.
For Musharraf, this means that continuing to hunt with the hounds and run with the hares might get harder.
Now, following research conducted at CERN, the sprawling particle-physics laboratory near Geneva, the hunt may soon be over.
Physicists confront two major hurdles in their hunt for the Higgs.
Given the obvious benefits of having access to more territory in which to gather and hunt, outsiders - particularly those who bear characteristics that mark them as genetically distant - were treated as foes.
Hunt the Dodo as much as you like.
The goal of Poland's peaceful revolution was freedom, sovereignty, and economic reform, not a hunt for suspected or real secret police agents.
If a hunt for agents had been organized in 1990 when the democratic revolution began, neither Leszek Balcerowicz's economic reforms nor the establishment of a state governed by law would have been possible.

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