Hunt Definition
hŭnt
hunted, hunting, hunts
verb
hunted, hunting, hunts
To go out to kill or catch (game) for food or sport.
Webster's New World
To go out after game; take part in the chase.
Webster's New World
To search eagerly or carefully for; try to find.
Webster's New World
In bell ringing, to change the order of bells in a hunt.
Webster's New World
To search; seek.
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Synonyms:
- prowl after
- scour
- delve for
- leave-no-stone-unturned
- grope in the dark
- search out
- search for
- hunt out
- hunt for
- inquire
- spoor
- ferret-out
- trace
- ransack
- trail
noun
hunts
The act of hunting; the chase.
Webster's New World
A group of people who hunt together.
Webster's New World
A hunting expedition or outing, usually with horses and hounds.
American Heritage
A district covered in hunting.
Webster's New World
Those taking part in such an expedition or outing.
American Heritage
pronoun
An English occupational surname for a hunter (for game, birds etc).
Wiktionary
idiom
hunt down
- to pursue until successful in catching or killing
- to search for until successful in finding
Webster's New World
hunt up
- to hunt for; search for
- to find by searching
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in the hunt
- having a chance to win a competition
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Idioms, Phrasal Verbs Related to Hunt
Origin of Hunt
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From Middle English hunten, from Old English huntian (“to hunt”), from Proto-Germanic *huntōną (“to hunt, capture”), from Proto-Indo-European *kend- (“to catch, seize”). Related to Old High German hunda (“booty”), Gothic (hunþs, “body of captives”), Old English hūþ (“plunder, booty, prey”), Old English hentan (“to catch, seize”). More at hent, hint.
From Wiktionary
Middle English hunten from Old English huntian
From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition
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