Dictionary definition · Hunt
noun
- Englishman and Pre-Raphaelite painter (1827-1910)
- an association of huntsmen who hunt for sport
- United States architect (1827-1895)
- an instance of searching for something"the hunt for submarines"
- British writer who defended the Romanticism of Keats and Shelley (1784-1859)
- the activity of looking thoroughly in order to find something or someone
- the work of finding and killing or capturing animals for food or pelts
- the pursuit and killing or capture of wild animals regarded as a sport
verb
- pursue for food or sport (as of wild animals)"Goering often hunted wild boars in Poland"
- pursue or chase relentlessly"The hunters traced the deer into the woods"
- chase away, with as with force"They hunted the unwanted immigrants out of the neighborhood"
- yaw back and forth about a flight path"the plane's nose yawed"
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Source: Open English WordNet (CC BY 4.0).