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- Dictionaryhunt/hənt/
verb
- 1. pursue and kill (a wild animal) for sport or food: "in the autumn they hunted deer" Similar
- 2. search determinedly for someone or something: "he desperately hunted for a new job" Similar
noun
- 1. an act of hunting wild animals or game: "a bear-hunt" Similar
- 2. a search: "police launched a hunt for the killer" Similar
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The meaning of HUNT is to pursue for food or in sport. How to use hunt in a sentence.
verb (used with object) to chase or search for (game or other wild animals) for the purpose of catching or killing. Synonyms: track, pursue. to pursue with force, hostility, etc., in order to capture (often followed by down ): They hunted him down and hanged him.
HUNT definition: 1. to chase and try to catch and kill an animal or bird for food, sport, or profit: 2. in Britain…. Learn more.
1. to seek out and kill or capture (game or wild animals) for food or sport. 2. (intransitive; often foll by for) to look (for); search (for) to hunt for a book. to hunt up a friend. 3. (transitive) to use ( hounds, horses, etc) in the pursuit of wild animals, game, etc. to hunt a pack of hounds.
To hunt is to track and kill an animal for fun or food. In Italy, they use pigs to hunt truffles. In the US, they use shotguns to hunt deer. Some humans hunt animals with a gun or a bow and arrow, and some animals hunt smaller animals — the way a wolf hunts rabbits or a cat hunts birds.
HUNT meaning: 1. to chase and try to catch and kill an animal or bird for food, sport, or profit: 2. in Britain…. Learn more.
vb. 1. (Hunting) to seek out and kill or capture (game or wild animals) for food or sport. 2. (often foll by: for) to look (for); search (for): to hunt for a book; to hunt up a friend. 3. (Hunting) ( tr) to use (hounds, horses, etc) in the pursuit of wild animals, game, etc: to hunt a pack of hounds. 4.
[intransitive, transitive] to go after wild animals in order to catch or kill them for food, sport or to make money. Lions sometimes hunt alone. hunt something Whales are still being hunted and killed in the Arctic. hunt for something Cavemen had to hunt for their food. They watched the bald eagles hunting for fish.
HUNT definition: 1. to chase and kill wild animals: 2. to search for something: 3. a person who hunts wild animals. Learn more.
hunt meaning, definition, what is hunt: to chase animals and birds in order to k...: Learn more.
