hunt

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
  • the hunt for submarines
    

• 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
  • the plane's nose yawed
    

• 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
    

Related words

• Synonyms: 
  hunting , search , hunt club , Hunt , Leigh Hunt , James Henry Leigh Hunt , Richard Morris Hunt , Holman Hunt , William Holman Hunt , hound , trace , run , hunt down , track down