hunt
huhnt
- n Englishman and Pre-Raphaelite painter (1827-1910)
- n United States architect (1827-1895)
- n British writer who defended the Romanticism of Keats and Shelley (1784-1859)
- n an association of huntsmen who hunt for sport
- n an instance of searching for something
the hunt for submarines - n the activity of looking thoroughly in order to find something or someone
- n the work of finding and killing or capturing animals for food or pelts
- n the pursuit and killing or capture of wild animals regarded as a sport
- v pursue for food or sport (as of wild animals)
Goering often hunted wild boars in Poland
The Duke hunted in these woods - v pursue or chase relentlessly
The hunters traced the deer into the woods - v chase away, with as with force
They hunted the unwanted immigrants out of the neighborhood - v yaw back and forth about a flight path
- v oscillate about a desired speed, position, or state to an undesirable extent
The oscillator hunts about the correct frequency - v seek, search for
She hunted for her reading glasses but was unable to locate them - v search (an area) for prey
The King used to hunt these forests
- You still fox hunt now? Yes, I'm the Master of Hounds at Oak Ridge Fox Hunt Club.
- Japanese whalers are planning to harpoon up to 50 humpback whales for the first time since hunting the endangered species was banned in 1963.
- Behind the Iron Curtain in Eastern Europe, the Red hunt bore down implacably on party heretics, class enemies and "agents of Western imperialism.