| an intensive effort to discover and expose disloyalty, subversion, dishonesty, or the like, usually based on slight, doubtful, or irrelevant evidence. |
[wich-huhnt] 
| to subject to a witch hunt. |
| witch-hunt also witch hunt (wĭch'hŭnt') n. An investigation carried out ostensibly to uncover subversive activities but actually used to harass and undermine those with differing views. witch'-hunt'er n., witch'-hunt'ing adj. & n. |