hunt
noun
1. an association of huntsmen who hunt for sport
Definition categories: group, club, gild, guild, lodge, order, society
2. an instance of searching for something
- the hunt for submarines
Definition categories: thought, search
3. the activity of looking thoroughly in order to find something or someone
Similar word(s): hunting, search
Definition categories: act, activity
4. the work of finding and killing or capturing animals for food or pelts
Similar word(s): hunting
Definition categories: act, labor, labour, toil
5. the pursuit and killing or capture of wild animals regarded as a sport
Similar word(s): hunting
Definition categories: act
verb
1. pursue for food or sport (as of wild animals)
- Goering often hunted wild boars in Poland
- The Duke hunted in these woods
Similar word(s): run
Definition categories: competition, capture, catch
2. pursue or chase relentlessly
- The hunters traced the deer into the woods
Definition categories: motion, chase, dog, tag, tail, track, trail
3. chase away, with as with force
- They hunted the unwanted immigrants out of the neighborhood
Definition categories: motion, rouse
4. yaw back and forth about a flight path
Definition categories: motion, yaw
5. oscillate about a desired speed, position, or state to an undesirable extent
- The oscillator hunts about the correct frequency
Definition categories: motion, oscillate, vibrate
6. seek, search for
- She hunted for her reading glasses but was unable to locate them
Definition categories: contact, search, seek
7. search (an area) for prey
- The King used to hunt these forests
Definition categories: competition, look, search
Sentences with hunt as a verb:
- Her uncle is out hunting deer, now that it is open season.
- The little girl was hunting for shells on the beach.
- The police are hunting for evidence.
- to hunt down a criminal
- He was hunted from the parish.
- Did you hunt that pony last week?
- He hunts the woods, or the country.