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Hunt

noun

1.

Englishman and Pre-Raphaelite painter (1827-1910). Synonyms: Holman Hunt, William Holman Hunt.

2.

United States architect (1827-1895). Synonym: Richard Morris Hunt.

3.

British writer who defended the Romanticism of Keats and Shelley (1784-1859). Synonyms: James Henry Leigh Hunt, Leigh Hunt.

4.

An association of huntsmen who hunt for sport. Synonym: hunt club.

5.

An instance of searching for something.

6.

The activity of looking thoroughly in order to find something or someone. Synonyms: hunting, search.

7.

The work of finding and killing or capturing animals for food or pelts. Synonym: hunting.

8.

The pursuit and killing or capture of wild animals regarded as a sport. Synonym: hunting.

verb

(past & past part. hunted; pres. part. hunting)

1.

Pursue for food or sport (as of wild animals). Synonyms: hunt down, run, track down. "The dogs are running deer" , "The Duke hunted in these woods"

2.

Pursue or chase relentlessly. Synonyms: hound, trace. "The detectives hounded the suspect until they found him"

3.

Chase away, with as with force.

4.

Yaw back and forth about a flight path.

5.

Oscillate about a desired speed, position, or state to an undesirable extent.

6.

Seek, search for.

7.

Search (an area) for prey.

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"Hunt" Quotes from Famous Books

... contemporaries, have often related to me how Red Cloud was always successful in the hunt because his horses were so well broken. At the age of nine, he began to ride his father's pack pony upon the buffalo hunt. He was twelve years old, he told me, when he was first permitted to take part in the chase, and found to his great mortification that none of his arrows ...

— Indian Heroes and Great Chieftains • [AKA Ohiyesa], Charles A. Eastman

... Archie, who, although very far from being pleased at his own situation, could not resist the inclination to torment Arthur. "It reaches clear through to India, where you used to hunt polar bears." ...

— Frank Among The Rancheros • Harry Castlemon

... head of the movement. As a result of the disastrous failure of the rising, public opinion turned against them, and their leaderless hordes slunk back into the Viborg Quarter, which is Petrograd's St. Antoine. Then followed a savage hunt of the Bolsheviki; hundreds were imprisoned, among them Trotzky, Madame Kollontai and Kameniev; Lenin and Zinoviev went into hiding, fugitives from justice; the Bolshevik papers were suppressed. Provocators and reactionaries raised ...

— Ten Days That Shook the World • John Reed

... felt sure. And I thought of the streets by night. In all probability, no one had seen him come up to the chambers; but I was damped directly there; for those who carried the man down would be able to tell whence he came, and hundreds would be glad to play the amateur detective and hunt me down. ...

— Witness to the Deed • George Manville Fenn

... would wipe out Earth when the Rats set off the sun. Man might survive. There were colonies that the Rats didn't know about. But they'd find them eventually. Without Earth, the race would be set back five hundred—maybe five thousand—years. The Rats would would have plenty of time to hunt them out ...

— The Measure of a Man • Randall Garrett

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