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Defenition of the word hunt

    • Defenition of the word hunt

      • The pursuit and killing or capture of wild animals.
      • To chase down prey and (usually) kill it.
      • Chase of prey.
      • pursue or chase relentlessly
      • the pursuit and killing or capture of wild animals regarded as a sport
      • the work of finding and killing or capturing animals for food or pelts
      • an association of huntsmen who hunt for sport
      • a search for an alternative that meets cognitive criteria
      • hunt wild animals; "Goering often hunted wild boars in Poland"
      • the activity of looking thoroughly in order to find something or someone
      • an instance of searching for something; "the hunt for submarines"
      • British writer who defended the romanticism of Keats and Shelley (1784-1859)
      • United States architect (1827-1895)
      • Englishman and Pre-Raphaelite painter (1827-1910)
      • 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"
      • search (an area) for prey; "The King used to hunt these forests"
      • seek, search for; "She hunted for her reading glasses but was unable to locate them"
      • oscillate about a desired speed, position, or state to an undesirable extent; "The oscillator hunts about the correct frequency"
      • pursue or chase relentlessly; "The hunters traced the deer into the woods"; "the detectives hounded the suspect until they found the him"
      • yaw back and forth about a flight path; "the plane''s nose yawed"
      • chase away, with as with force; "They hunted the the unwanted immigrants out of the neighborhood"
      • an instance of searching for something
      • pursue for food or sport (as of wild animals)
      • search (an area) for prey
      • seek, search for
      • oscillate about a desired speed, position, or state to an undesirable extent
      • yaw back and forth about a flight path
      • chase away, with as with force

    Synonyms for the word hunt

      • chase
      • comb
      • drive
      • expedition
      • ferret
      • follow
      • hound
      • hunt club
      • hunt down
      • hunting
      • look for
      • pursue
      • pursuit
      • quest
      • rummage
      • run
      • scour
      • search
      • search for
      • searching
      • seek
      • sleuth
      • stalk
      • trace
      • track
      • track down

    Similar words in the hunt

      • hunt
      • hunt's
      • hunter
      • hunter's
      • hunters
      • huntington
      • huntington's
      • huntley
      • huntley's
      • huntress
      • huntress's
      • huntresses
      • huntsman
      • huntsman's
      • huntsmen
      • huntsville
      • huntsville's

    Hyponyms for the word hunt

      • ambush
      • battue
      • beagling
      • birdnesting
      • canned hunt
      • course
      • coursing
      • deer hunt
      • deer hunting
      • drive
      • duck hunting
      • ducking
      • exploration
      • falcon
      • ferret
      • forage
      • foraging
      • fowl
      • fox hunting
      • foxhunt
      • frisk
      • frisking
      • hawk
      • jack
      • jacklight
      • looking
      • looking for
      • manhunt
      • pigsticking
      • poach
      • predation
      • quest
      • rabbit
      • ransacking
      • rummage
      • scouring
      • scrounge
      • seal
      • seeking
      • shakedown
      • snipe
      • stalk
      • stalking
      • still hunt
      • still-hunt
      • tree
      • turtle
      • whale

    Hypernyms for the word hunt

      • activity
      • architect
      • author
      • blood sport
      • bloodsport
      • capture
      • catch
      • chase
      • chase after
      • club
      • designer
      • dog
      • drive out
      • field sport
      • force out
      • gild
      • give chase
      • go after
      • guild
      • labor
      • labour
      • lodge
      • look
      • look for
      • order
      • oscillate
      • outdoor sport
      • Pre-Raphaelite
      • rouse
      • rout out
      • search
      • seek
      • social club
      • society
      • tag
      • tail
      • toil
      • track
      • trail
      • vibrate
      • writer
      • yaw

    Idioms for the word hunt

      • hunt down

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