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verb (used with object)
1.
to chase or search for (game or other wild animals) for the purpose of catching or killing.
2.
to pursue with force, hostility, etc., in order to capture (often followed by down): They hunted him down and hanged him.
3.
to search for; seek; endeavor to obtain or find (often followed by up or out): to hunt up the most promising candidates for the position.
4.
to search (a place) thoroughly.
5.
EXPANDto scour (an area) in pursuit of game.
6.
to use or direct (a horse, hound, etc.) in chasing game.
7.
COLLAPSEChange Ringing. to alter the place of (a bell) in a hunt.
verb (used without object)
8.
to engage in the pursuit, capture, or killing of wild animals for food or in sport.
9.
to make a search or quest (often followed by for or after).
10.
Change Ringing. to alter the place of a bell in its set according to certain rules.
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| a printed punctuation mark (‽), available only in some typefaces, designed to combine the question mark (?) and the exclamation point (!), indicating a mixture of query and interjection, as after a rhetorical question. |
| an extraordinary or unusual thing, person, or event; an exceptional example or instance. |
noun
11.
an act or practice of hunting game or other wild animals.
12.
a search; a seeking or endeavor to find.
13.
a pursuit.
14.
a group of persons associated for the purpose of hunting; an association of hunters.
15.
EXPANDan area hunted over.
16.
COLLAPSEChange Ringing. a regularly varying order of permutations in the ringing of a group of from five to twelve bells.
Origin:
before 1000; (v.) Middle English hunten, Old English huntian, derivative of hunta hunter, akin to hentan to pursue; (noun) Middle English, derivative of the v.
before 1000; (v.) Middle English hunten, Old English huntian, derivative of hunta hunter, akin to hentan to pursue; (noun) Middle English, derivative of the v.
Related forms
hunt·a·ble, adjective
hunt·ed·ly, adverb
out·hunt, verb (used with object)
o·ver·hunt, verb (used with object)
un·hunt·a·ble, adjective
EXPANDun·hunt·ed, adjective
COLLAPSESynonyms
1. pursue, track.
1. pursue, track.
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| hunt up | |
| —vb | |
| 1. | (tr) to search for, esp successfully: I couldn't hunt up a copy of it anywhere |
| 2. | (intr) (of a bell) to be rung progressively earlier during a set of changes |
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Word Origin & History
hunt
O.E. huntian "chase game," related to hentan "to seize," from P.Gmc. *khuntojan (cf. Goth. hinþan "to seize, capture," O.H.G. hunda "booty"), from PIE *kend-. General sense of "search diligently" (for anything) is first recorded c.1200. The noun meaning "body of persons associated for the purpose
EXPANDof hunting with a pack of hounds" is first recorded 1579. Happy hunting-grounds "Native American afterlife paradise" is from "Last of the Mohicans" (1826).
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