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English - English Dict (Wordnet)
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Noun - the pursuit and killing or capture of wild animals regarded as a sport
- the work of finding and killing or capturing animals for food or pelts
- the activity of looking thoroughly in order to find something or someone
- an instance of searching for something
- an association of huntsmen who hunt for sport
- British writer who defended the Romanticism of Keats and Shelley (1784-1859)
- United States architect (1827-1895)
- Englishman and Pre-Raphaelite painter (1827-1910)
Verb - search (an area) for prey
- The King used to hunt these forests
- seek, search for
- She hunted for her reading glasses but was unable to locate them
- oscillate about a desired speed, position, or state to an undesirable extent
- The oscillator hunts about the correct frequency
- yaw back and forth about a flight path
- chase away, with as with force
- They hunted the unwanted immigrants out of the neighborhood
- pursue or chase relentlessly
- The hunters traced the deer into the woods
- the detectives hounded the suspect until they found him
- 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
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