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hunted

/ˈhʌntɪd/ adjective B1
  1. Being the subject of a hunt.
  2. Nervous and agitated, as if pursued. (figuratively) · He looked up with a hunted expression.
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They hunted me from Chicago to California, then they chased me out of America; but when I married and settled down in this quiet spot I thought my last years were going to be peaceable.
The Valley of Fear, p. 95 · C1
“Why, my dear boy, when a man has been proscribed by the mountaineers, has escaped from Paris in a hay-cart, been hunted over the plains of Bordeaux by Robespierre’s bloodhounds, he becomes accustomed to most things.
The Count of Monte Cristo, p. 110 · C1
It is terror.” She raised her veil as she spoke, and we could see that she was indeed in a pitiable state of agitation, her face all drawn and grey, with restless frightened eyes, like those of some hunted animal.
The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, p. 36 · B2
And that lame butcher would have killed him and would have run off to the Waingunga while the villagers here hunted through all our lairs in revenge!
The Jungle Book, p. 7 · B2

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