noun
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The act of hunting.
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A hunting expedition.
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An organization devoted to hunting, or the people belonging to it.
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A pack of hunting dogs.
verb
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To find or search for an animal in the wild with the intention of killing the animal for its meat or for sport.
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Her uncle will go out and hunt for deer, now that it is open season.
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To try to find something; search (for).
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The little girl was hunting for shells on the beach.
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To drive; to chase; with down, from, away, etc.
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He was hunted from the parish.
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To use or manage (dogs, horses, etc.) in hunting.
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Did you hunt that pony last week?
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To use or traverse in pursuit of game.
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He hunts the woods, or the country.
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(bell-ringing) To move or shift the order of (a bell) in a regular course of changes.
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(bell-ringing) To shift up and down in order regularly.
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To be in a state of instability of movement or forced oscillation, as a governor which has a large movement of the balls for small change of load, an arc-lamp clutch mechanism which moves rapidly up and down with variations of current, etc.; also, to seesaw, as a pair of alternators working in parallel.
Examples of hunt in a Sentence
They hunt at night.
The choices are endless, the hunt so exciting.
You should not hunt until this Victor is dealt with.
Thanks a lot for training him to hunt my chickens.
You don't want him or Gabe to hunt you down.
I'd rather feed the animals than hunt them.
I'll find their gateway and hunt them down one by one.
The hunt servants fell into line.
No one would hurt her or hunt her just to get to him.
But if you trick me, if the fourth day comes and Katie isn't alive, I'll wipe out everything and hunt you down.
You know, if you want to hunt, I could play wingman for you.
A few of us hunt every night for meat then have a bonfire to cook it up.
When this is over, I'll encourage Darian to hunt your kind as well.
Did you ever hunt or fish with your father?
Probably a five buck parking ticket he didn't pay fifty years ago and he thinks they're still trying to hunt him down.
It was in a crowded, shady side of town, the type of place he'd go to hunt down dinner, if he wasn't a kept vamp.
I get to go with you to hunt Others.
He had a look at all the details of the hunt, sent a pack of hounds and huntsmen on ahead to find the quarry, mounted his chestnut Donets, and whistling to his own leash of borzois, set off across the threshing ground to a field leading to the Otradnoe wood.
They were taking fifty-four hounds, with six hunt attendants and whippers-in.
The guinea-fowl likes to hide her nest in out-of-the-way places, and it was one of my greatest delights to hunt for the eggs in the long grass.
Look, I'm being summoned to hunt some bad men.
She'll be the first soul I hunt down.
He didn't hunt – that I know of, but we fished sometimes at the pond.
For the first time since landing in the human world, he had the intense urge to track, hunt and bring down something capable of eluding him.
Simon did not finish, for on the still air he had distinctly caught the music of the hunt with only two or three hounds giving tongue.
I'd better move my hunt further south when I've cleaned up my business and finished here.
Her father would hunt them both down, and if he didn't, the sword-wielding maniac would.
Parking wasn't a problem if you didn't mind paying the price of a good country dinner, but Dean didn't have time to hunt down a bargain so he reluctantly pulled into the closest lot.
If this ends as it should, I'd gladly help him hunt down the remaining Others.
The man before her was poised like an animal on a hunt, his penetrating, dark eyes pinned on her.
She has gone up to the top of the earth to hunt for our dinner.
You ransack your budget of historic facts much as you would hunt for a bit of silk in a rag-bag.
Each man in the hunt knew his business, his place, what he had to do.
The million dollar hunt for the Psychic Tipster was flooding the press; I suppose as intended.
So you hunt and fight.
The three creatures continued to hunt through the fallen, sometimes eating, most of the times pushing body parts aside in search of something.
I want you to go out and hunt.
Darian withdrew from her and the room, trotting down the stairs to hunt down the phone.
His curiosity satisfied and the hunt over, he was ready to leave the noise of the club for the peace of his condo.
You didn't come all this way to hunt.
The event will involve a predefined route, will include a treasure hunt, lunch stop and have various prizes at the finish venue.
We visit the horses and mules in their stalls and hunt for eggs and feed the turkeys.
Nowhere to hunt with your dogs?
By the way the hunt approached and receded, by the cries of the dogs whose notes were familiar to him, by the way the voices of the huntsmen approached, receded, and rose, he realized what was happening at the copse.
If you feel the need to hunt, just do it.
You should go hunt.
Now I can hunt you all down one by one.
On the 1st of July 1416 Chicheley directed a halfyearly inquisition by archdeacons to hunt out heretics.
The wolfdogs all hunt chiefly by scent.
Following the consultation Lord Philip Hunt announced plans to introduce supplementary prescribing in November 2002.