Converse of object

• spot: Special sightings included lion, spotted hyena, bush pig, buffalo, hippo and many large and strange birds.

• laugh: A ghoul might seem to have set it going, and laughing hyenas to be chorusing it.

• see: He was startled by a nightmare in which he saw a hyena chewing his leg.

• make: This makes hyenas vital to the recycling of nutrients in their savannah ecosystem.

• hear: The laughing hyena heard near the folds last night.

• keep: All the dwellings are walled into compounds to keep the ubiquitous hyena from the animals at night.

Converse of subject

• eat: It is entitled, " I was eaten by a hyena.

• attack: She's been attacked by hyenas and is bleeding to death.

Adjective modifier

• spotted: Watching while the spotted hyenas were 'laughing ' made for some surreal video footage!

• striped: The Striped hyena is sometimes killed by farmers for raiding their fruit crops.

• laughing: The laughing hyena heard near the folds last night.

• hungry: Hungry hyenas will sometimes take the trouble to dig such a pig out, but that is hard work.

Modifies a noun

• den: Civets and genets leave dung middens in the caves, and one cave was in use as a hyena den.

Noun used with modifier

• cave: This is the lower jaw of a cave hyena.

Preposition: in

• petticoat: One critic described Wollstonecraft as a " hyena in petticoats " .