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hunt
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WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
v. pursue for food or sport (as of wild animals); "Goering often hunted wild boars in Poland"; "The dogs are running deer"; "The Duke hunted in these woods" [syn: run , hunt down , track down ] pursue or chase relentlessly; "The hunters traced the deer ...
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
I. verb COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES a fishing/hunting licence (= a licence that allows you to fish/hunt ) ▪ He renewed his hunting license. a hunting expedition ▪ He was joined on his hunting expedition by two local guides. bargain hunting ▪ They're ...
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Old English huntian "chase game," related to hentan "to seize," from Proto-Germanic *huntojan (cognates: Gothic hinþan "to seize, capture," Old High German hunda "booty"), from PIE *kend- .\n \nGeneral sense of "search diligently" (for anything) is first ...
Usage examples of hunt.
Why, Abigail could best nearly any boy in the county at what were deemed masculine pursuits: hunting, riding and climbing trees.
It was time well spent, for they located a number of vessels in the port, with their names and destinations, and gave him chapter and verse of the hunt for the absconders from Port Arthur, which had apparently been going on for most of the day.
By his secrecy and diligence he entertained some hopes of surprising the person of Constans, who was pursuing in the adjacent forest his favorite amusement of hunting, or perhaps some pleasures of a more private and criminal nature.
Purple Rocks, taking the bodies back to the coast in Ruathen barrels, putting them on a caravel set adrift in the known path of the Waterdhavian hunting vessel.
Hunt Week in hope of seeing the beauteous Lady Agatine Slegin and her ladies.
He and his agemates had hunted in the sea for tasty mirrat, small finned swimmers which only migrated through the area at that time of the orbital cycle.
Long Hunt in the high-country ridges with the rest of his agemates, and could move through underbrush with no more noise than a passing thought.
Beany crep out esy and hunted round til we found the string and we tide it agen as tite as we cood and then we crep back into the porch and peeked through the window.
In the wildness of his youth, Danlo had hunted and slain a thousand such animals would it be so great a sin if he broke ahimsa this one time and sacrificed the lamb?
I think perhaps the Hunt would appeal to your particular sporting instinct, Aiken Drum.
It is in my heart that when Akela misses his next kill,--and at each hunt it costs him more to pin the buck,--the Pack will turn against him and against thee.
The herd paused for an instant at the edge of the slope, but Akela gave tongue in the full hunting yell, and they pitched over one after the other just as steamers shoot rapids, the sand and stones spurting up round them.
Ever since Akela had been deposed, the Pack had been without a leader, hunting and fighting at their own pleasure.
My nurse said the Alaunt were a pack of enchanted hounds who hunted down humans.
After all, the Alaunt were hunting hounds and their master had wielded the Wolven.