hunt
/hʌnt/ verb B1- To find or search for an animal in the wild with the intention of killing the animal for its meat or for sport. · State Wildlife Management areas often offer licensed hunters the opportunity to hunt on public lands.· Her uncle will go out and hunt for deer, now that it is open season.
- To try to find something; search (for). · The little girl was hunting for shells on the beach.· The police are hunting for evidence.
- To drive; to chase; with down, from, away, etc. · to hunt down a criminal· He was hunted from the parish.
- To use or manage (dogs, horses, etc.) in hunting. · Did you hunt that pony last week?
- To use or traverse in pursuit of game. · He hunts the woods, or the country.
- To move or shift the order of (a bell) in a regular course of changes.
- To shift up and down in order regularly.
- 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.
He/she/it hunts · Past hunted · Past participle hunted · -ing form hunting
Verb forms
- Base form
- hunt
- He/she/it
- hunts
- Past
- hunted
- Past participle
- hunted
- -ing form
- hunting
Phrasal verbs and expressions
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James’s Hall I felt that an evil time might be coming upon those whom he had set himself to hunt down.
## The Boy Hunting Locusts
A BOY was hunting for locusts.
that while I purposed to hunt another, I am myself fallen unawares into the snares of death.”
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