- hunt, hunting - the pursuit and killing or capture of wild animals regarded as a sport
--1 is a kind of outdoor sport, field sport; blood sport
--1 has particulars:battue; beagling; coursing; deer hunting, deer hunt; ducking, duck hunting; fox hunting, foxhunt; pigsticking Derived forms: verb hunt7, verb hunt1 - search, hunt, hunting - the activity of looking thoroughly in order to find something or someone
--2 is a kind of activity
--2 has particulars:exploration; foraging, forage; frisk, frisking; looking, looking for; manhunt; quest, seeking; ransacking, rummage; scouring; shakedown Derived form: verb hunt6 - hunt, hunting - the work of finding and killing or capturing animals for food or pelts
--3 is a kind of labor, labour, toil
--3 has particulars:canned hunt; stalk, stalking, still hunt; birdnesting; predation Derived form: verb hunt1
- hunt, run, hunt down, track down - 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"
--1 is one way to capture, catch
Sample sentences:Derived forms: noun hunt8, noun hunt7, noun hunter1, noun hunting1, noun hunting3
The men hunt the area for animals
The men hunt for animals in the area
- hound, hunt, trace - pursue or chase relentlessly; "The hunters traced the deer into the woods"; "the detectives hounded the suspect until they found the him"
--2 is one way to chase, chase after, trail, tail, tag, give chase, dog, go after, track
Sample sentences:Derived forms: noun hunt8, noun hunt7, noun hunter1
Somebody ----s something
Somebody ----s somebody
- hunt - chase away, with as with force; "They hunted the the unwanted immigrants out of the neighborhood"
--3 is one way to rout out, drive out, force out, rouse
Sample sentences:
Somebody ----s somebody
Something ----s somebody
- hunt - yaw back and forth about a flight path; "the plane's nose yawed"
--4 is one way to yaw
Sample sentences:
Something ----s
Somebody ----s
- hunt - oscillate about a desired speed, position, or state to an undesirable extent; "The oscillator hunts about the correct frequency"
--5 is one way to oscillate, vibrate
Sample sentence:
Something ----s
- hunt - seek, search for; "She hunted for her reading glasses but was unable to locate them"
--6 is one way to search, seek, look for
Sample sentence:Derived forms: noun hunt5, noun hunt6, noun hunter2, noun hunting2
Somebody ----s something
- hunt - search (an area) for prey; "The King used to hunt these forests"
--7 is one way to search, look
Sample sentence:Derived forms: noun hunt8, noun hunt7, noun hunter1, noun hunting1
Somebody ----s something
- hunt - yaw back and forth about a flight path; "the plane's nose yawed"