hunt
/hʌnt/
To find or search for an animal in the wild with the intention of killing the animal for its meat or for sport; To try to find something; search; To drive
- he/she/it
- hunts
- past participle
- hunted
Meanings
- 1
To find or search for an animal in the wild with the intention of killing the animal for its meat or for sport
I always go hunting alone.
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Tom is hunting for a job.
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- 2
To try to find something; search (for)
- 3
To drive; to chase; with down, from, away, etc
- 4
To use or manage (dogs, horses, etc.) in huntingrare
- 5
To use or traverse in pursuit of gamerare
- 6
To move or shift the order of (a bell) in a regular course of changesrare
- 7
To shift up and down in order regularlyrare
- 8
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 parallelrare