Hunt

Quick meaning: Hunt is a verb 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.

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.

More Meanings

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

The police are hunting for evidence.

He after honour hunts, I after love.

The little girl was hunting for shells on the beach.

Her uncle will go out and hunt for deer, now that it is open season.

Word Forms

• hunts
• hunting
• hunted

Synonyms for hunt

Depending on context, synonyms include trace, run, pursuit, hound, searching, hunting.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include hound, trace, run, pursuit, quest, search.

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