Meaning

(ambitransitive) To find or search for an animal in the wild with the intention of killing the animal for its meat or for sport..

Definitions by Sense

1. (ambitransitive) To find or search for an animal in the wild with the intention of killing the animal for its meat or for sport.
2. (ambitransitive) To try to find something; search (for).
3. (transitive) To drive; to chase; with down, from, away, etc.
4. (transitive) To use or manage (dogs, horses, etc.) in hunting.
5. (transitive) To use or traverse in pursuit of game.
6. (bell-ringing, transitive) To move or shift the order of (a bell) in a regular course of changes.
7. (bell-ringing, intransitive) To shift up and down in order regularly.
8. (engineering, intransitive) 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.

Example Sentences

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.

Like a dog, he hunts in dreams, and thou art staring at the wall, / Where the dying night-lamp flickers, and the shadows rise and fall.

Either the bird will be downgraded to "threatened" status — which means it can be hunted — or it will be declared a nonspecies, as has already happened to all its taxonomic kissing cousins.

The little girl was hunting for shells on the beach.

The police are hunting for evidence.

He after honour hunts, I after love.

I stumbled along through the young pines and huckleberry bushes. Pretty soon I struck into a sort of path that, I cal'lated, might lead to the road I was hunting for. It twisted and turned, and, the first thing I knew, made a sudden bend around a bunch of bayberry scrub and opened out into a big clear space like a lawn.

Word Forms

• hunts
• hunting
• hunted

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When Should You Use Hunt?

Use hunt when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.

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