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Hunting

noun

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

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

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

Hunt

verb

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

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"

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

Chase away, with as with force.

Yaw back and forth about a flight path.

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

Seek, search for.

Search (an area) for prey.

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"Hunting" Quotes from Famous Books

... out of him. He began to talk to her of the many days and nights he had spent alone, fasting, in the prayer lodge until some message came to him from Okee, some message about the harvest or the success of a hunting party. Pocahontas was so interested that ...

— The Princess Pocahontas • Virginia Watson

... water, cannot expend their quantities of waste strength on riding, hunting, swimming, and fencing, and run into absurd follies with the gravity of the Eumenides. They stoutly carry into every nook and corner of the earth their turbulent sense; leaving no lie uncontradicted; no pretension unexamined. They chew hasheesh; cut themselves with ...

— The Autocrat of the Breakfast-Table • Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr. (The Physician and Poet not the Jurist)

... tribe of the stranger had ever seen a white man. None had ever visited the coast. All were myalls, living naked among the mountains in gorges gloomy with jungle, and but rarely hunting on the foothills. One day consternation and curiosity spread through the camp. Three strange men with yellow faces and short black hair had been seen. They carried nothing in their hands, and seemed frightened. Thus the nervous couriers ...

— Tropic Days • E. J. Banfield

... welcome, and saw something of the Dyak women and children. The men were mostly gone to the war, and great excitement prevailed among the tribe with the prospect of acquiring heads again, for the Sarawak Government had quite stopped that hunting in the country. Boats were continually arriving, gay with streamers, and noisy with gongs and drums beating, with heads of Chinese on board. One day we were invited to a feast in one of the long houses. I said, "I hope we shall see no heads," and was told I need not see any; so, taking ...

— Sketches of Our Life at Sarawak • Harriette McDougall

... the regular highway robbers, well armed and well mounted, they favoured better-frequented routes than this. Open heaths were their favourite hunting grounds, though they liked well enough to lie in hiding in the forests when they had brought too much notoriety upon themselves. These unfrequented forest paths did not offer them sufficient hope of booty to attract them ...

— Tom Tufton's Travels • Evelyn Everett-Green

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