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hunt

UK/hʌnt/ US/hʊnt/ common
verb (7) noun (8)

verb

1.

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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2.

pursue or chase relentlessly

  • “The hunters traced the deer into the woods”
  • “the detectives hounded the suspect until they found the him”
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3.

chase away, with as with force

  • “They hunted the the unwanted immigrants out of the neighborhood”
4.

yaw back and forth about a flight path

  • “the plane”
5.

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

  • “The oscillator hunts about the correct frequency”
6.

seek, search for

  • “She hunted for her reading glasses but was unable to locate them”
7.

search (an area) for prey

  • “The King used to hunt these forests”

noun

1.
2.

United States architect (1827-1895)

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3.

British writer who defended the romanticism of Keats and Shelley (1784-1859)

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4.

an association of huntsmen who hunt for sport

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5.

an instance of searching for something

  • “the hunt for submarines”
6.
7.

the work of finding and killing or capturing animals for food or pelts

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8.

the pursuit and killing or capture of wild animals regarded as a sport

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Origin

From Middle English hunten, from Old English huntian (“to hunt”), from Proto-West Germanic *huntōn (“to hunt, capture”), possibly from Proto-Indo-European *ḱent- (“to catch, seize”). Related to Old High German hunda (“booty”), Gothic 𐌷𐌿𐌽𐌸𐍃 (hunþs, “body of captives”), Old English hūþ (“plunder, booty, prey”), Old English hentan (“to catch, seize”). More at hent, hint. In some areas read as a collective form of hound by folk etymology.

Phrases

  • hunt and peck
  • hunt down
  • hunt out
  • hunt the gowk
  • hunt the slipper
  • hunt up
  • hunt where the ducks are
  • hunt where the ducks were

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