Word Finder - hunted

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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.

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Being the subject of a hunt.

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Nervous and agitated, as if pursued.

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He looked up with a hunted expression.

He was hunted in his own house.

The king himself was obliged to hide in the wild woods while his foes hunted for him with hounds.

Kinloch, it is hunted by "tracking the animal on a single elephant until he is at last found in his lair, or perhaps standing quite unconscious PIG.

The lower tribes hunted their enemies as they hunted animals.

There is on one to connect me to New Hampshire though this little group who thought they were so clever hiding in that silly business in Keene might suspect that the one they hunted is now hunting them!

Jackson hunted him down, beat him mercilessly, and then threatened to stake him if he ever went near Sarah again.

How did a man who hunted animals to eat become a veterinarian?

It is hunted chiefly for the sake of the ivory of its immense tusks, of which it yields the principal source of supply to the European market, and the desire to obtain which is rapidly leading to the extermination of the species.

Hunted to the ground and broken-hearted, Frederick expired at the end of 1250 in his Apulian castle of Fiorentino.

Still, the reindeer frequents it for its lichens, and on the drier slopes of the moraine deposits there occur four species of lemming, hunted by the Arctic fox (Vulpes lagopus).

He hunted down the Carbonari and the Freemasons; he took the strongest measures against political agitation in theatres.

It generally inhabits woody districts, and can climb trees with facility when hunted, but usually lives on or near the ground, among rocks, bushes and roots and low branches of large trees.

Their efforts in this direction are seldom unsuccessful; and it appears to be a fact that stags which are hunted season after season come to understand that they are in no grave danger.

The jackal, and not the fox, is usually the animal hunted by the packs of hounds occasionally kept by Europeans.

You see, guys who just hunted down women looked down on the children snatchers and the scum that took on little girls thought they were a rank better than the little boy snatchers.

The Unitarians were relentlessly hunted down and a veritable reign of terror ensued.

This tyrant had made himself justly odious; and when he was hunted to death in 1259, the triumph was less for the Guelph cause than for humanity outraged by the iniquities of such a monster.

From that time he was hunted from place to place, though his wide connexions with the nobility and the friendship of his numerous followers provided for him secure hiding-places and for his books a large circulation.

The king fish and tarpon are hunted for sport, while mullet, shad, redsnappers, pompano, trout, sheepshead and Spanish mackerel are of great economic value.

It is hunted by the blacks with trained dingoes; the flesh is much prized by the blacks, but the presence of a worm between the muscles and the skin renders it less inviting to Europeans.

I took my "Reader for Beginners" and hunted for the words I knew; when I found them my joy was like that of a game of hide-and-seek.

He successfully hunted down Brenda Washington, no easy chore.

Massey was out on parole and was so incensed at his capture ruining his life he hunted her down.

Because apparently, to humans, explosions were more interesting than the fact they were watching him – a creature that hunted humans – cook their food.

It was hunted in England and in Europe on foot and on horseback with dogs, while the weapon of attack was always the spear.

The main season started in November and ran through to April, when many of the hunted vixens were pregnant.

The suppression of Roman Catholicism was zealously pursued by Cromwell; the priests were hunted down and imprisoned or exiled to Spain or Barbados, the mass was everywhere forbidden, and the only liberty allowed was that of conscience, the Romanist not being obliged to attend Protestant services.

But Ibn Zobair refused, and the Medinians, of whom the majority probably had never before seen a prince's court, however simple, were only confirmed in their rancour against Yazid, and told many horrible tales about his profligacy, that he hunted and held wild orgies with Bedouin sheikhs, and had no religion.

The guanaco is hunted for its skin, which, when dressed, makes an attractive rug or robe.

As you eat more and more, you grow in size, and the hunted becomes the hunter, giving you the opportunity to munch on fish that were chasing after you just moments ago.

Once a vampire, she hunted his cohorts one by one, leaving him until last.

Among vampires, Alice is special for her gifts and she remembers nothing of her past, although James reveals that a vampire he hunted turned her.

The mysterious vampire apparently held great affection for the mad little girl Alice once was and he did not want James to hunt Alice as James hunted Bella in the first Twilight.

Back in Bon Temps, the citizens were seduced by Maryann as she hunted Sam.

Long before he romanced Lana Lang on Smallville and hunted demons, angels and other things that go bump in the night on Supernatural, Jensen Ackles played Sami Brady's better twin brother Eric from 1997 to 2000.

For many centuries, tigers were hunted in order to obtain their fur, which was used to make exotic coats and other fur items.

To that end, Protein Power Lifeplan recommends eating a low-carbohydrate diet containing foods that early humans hunted or foraged.

Now that your UPS guy has brought your lingerie to you in a cutesy little box, or you hunted some down at a local boutique, you may want to do the whole "look."

These are oftentimes hunted down by networks and quickly deleted, however plenty of episodes have been viewed by thousands of web visitors before the situation can be stopped.

All of the criminals who are hunted on the show are real, with actual warrants put out for their arrests.

His minions hunted Buffy, often involving her friends.

Buffy's relationship with Riley strained her friendships as she became involved and then later hunted by the Initiative.

The season finale dealt with the fallout of the Adam, a demon/human/computer hybrid Frankenstein project of the Initiative escaped and had to be hunted down.

She allowed her magic to consume her and hunted down those who killed Tara, skinning Warren alive.

As the First Evil hunted down and killed inactive, potential slayers, Buffy learned that the first Slayer was actually created by binding a demon to a young girl, and it is from demons that Slayers take their abilities.

They often hunted in human lands, and it was particularly dangerous to be abroad when the Fairy Court was on the hunt.

The Hunted by Marianne LaCroix is one of the longer stories in Vamprotica.

Andrei is the hunted demon of the night.

Jane is his hunter set on killing him, but fate has other plans, and passion clouds the line between who is the hunter and who is the hunted.

Raised by their father John Winchester to be hunters, the boys shared a very abnormal childhood, traveling from town to town while their father hunted monsters.