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hunting
[ huhn-ting ]
noun
- the act of a person, animal, or thing that hunts.
- Electricity. the periodic oscillating of a rotating electromechanical system about a mean space position, as in a synchronous motor.
adjective
- of, for, engaged in, or used while hunting:
a hunting cap.
hunting
/ ˈhʌntɪŋ /
noun
- venatic
- the pursuit and killing or capture of game and wild animals, regarded as a sport
- ( as modifier )
hunting lodge
hunting boots
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Other Words From
- anti·hunting noun adjective
- non·hunting adjective
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Word History and Origins
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Example Sentences
Viscount Mandeville, like many British aristocrats, had met her in the U.S. while “hunting” for an American wife.
Does wildlife campaigner Prince Charles's hunting habit make him a hypocrite?
Louis Bacon, another big donor, owns land all over the world, including a grouse-hunting estate in Scotland.
The formula of most of their programs has Drew doing the house hunting and Jonathan doing the design and construction.
In the other 10 percent of Wyoming, wolf-hunting season opened that same day.
The King of Delhi had a hunting-lodge somewhere in the locality, but he had never seen the place.
When the whole hunt is hunting up, each single change is made between the whole hunt, and the next bell above it.
But don't go hunting after them, there are still modern Immortals in the darkness of a forgotten language.
With these ten Hunts, the first change in each Peal is made by hunting the whole Hunt up.
With these ten Hunts, the first change in each Peal is made by hunting down the whole Hunt.
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