hunt
1. an association of huntsmen who hunt for sport
• Syn:
hunt club
• Hypernyms:
club, social club, society, guild, gild,
lodge, order
2. an instance of searching for something
- the hunt for submarines
• Hypernyms:
search
3. the activity of looking thoroughly in order to find something or someone
• Syn:
search, hunting
• Derivationally related forms:
hunt (for: hunting), search (for: search)
• Hypernyms:
activity
• Hyponyms:
exploration, foraging, forage, frisk, frisking,
looking, looking for, manhunt, quest, seeking, ransacking,
rummage, scouring, shakedown
4. the work of finding and killing or capturing animals for food or pelts
• Syn:
hunting
• Derivationally related forms:
hunt (for: hunting)
• Hypernyms:
labor, labour, toil
• Hyponyms:
canned hunt, stalk, stalking, still hunt, birdnesting, predation
5. the pursuit and killing or capture of wild animals regarded as a sport
• Syn:
hunting
• Derivationally related forms:
hunt (for: hunting)
• Members of this Topic:
bag, batfowl, trap, entrap, snare,
ensnare, trammel, gin
• Hypernyms:
outdoor sport, field sport, blood sport
• Hyponyms:
battue, beagling, coursing, deer hunting, deer hunt,
ducking, duck hunting, fox hunting, foxhunt, pigsticking
1. pursue for food or sport (as of wild animals) (Freq. 4)
- Goering often hunted wild boars in Poland
- The dogs are running deer
- The Duke hunted in these woods
• Syn:
run, hunt down, track down
• Derivationally related forms:
hunter, hunting
• Hypernyms:
capture, catch
• Hyponyms:
snipe, whale, still-hunt, ambush, turtle,
drive, rabbit, fowl, poach, seal, ferret,
course, foxhunt, jacklight, jack, hawk, falcon,
scrounge, forage
• Verb Group:
run
• Verb Frames:
- Somebody ----s
- Somebody ----s something
- Somebody ----s somebody
- The men hunt the area for animals
- The men hunt for animals in the area
2. pursue or chase relentlessly (Freq. 2)
- The hunters traced the deer into the woods
- the detectives hounded the suspect until they found him
• Syn:
hound, trace
• Derivationally related forms:
hunter, hound (for: hound)
• Hypernyms:
chase, chase after, trail, tail, tag,
give chase, dog, go after, track
• Hyponyms:
ferret
• Verb Frames:
- Somebody ----s something
- Somebody ----s somebody
3. chase away, with as with force
- They hunted the unwanted immigrants out of the neighborhood
• Hypernyms:
rout out, drive out, force out, rouse
• Verb Frames:
- Somebody ----s somebody
- Something ----s somebody
4. yaw back and forth about a flight path
- the plane's nose yawed
• Topics:
airplane, aeroplane, plane
• Hypernyms:
yaw
• Verb Frames:
- Something ----s
- Somebody ----s
5. oscillate about a desired speed, position, or state to an undesirable extent
- The oscillator hunts about the correct frequency
• Hypernyms:
oscillate, vibrate
• Verb Frames:
- Something ----s
6. seek, search for
- She hunted for her reading glasses but was unable to locate them
• Derivationally related forms:
hunter, hunting
• Hypernyms:
search, seek, look for
• Verb Frames:
- Somebody ----s something
7. search (an area) for prey
- The King used to hunt these forests
• Derivationally related forms:
hunter, hunting
• Hypernyms:
search, look
• Verb Group:
run, hunt down, track down
• Verb Frames:
- Somebody ----s something
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