hunt
verb
[ hʌnt ]
• pursue and kill (a wild animal) for sport or food.
• "in the autumn they hunted deer"
Similar:
chase,
give chase to,
pursue,
stalk,
course,
hunt down,
run down,
track,
trail,
follow,
shadow,
hound,
dog,
tail,
• search determinedly for someone or something.
• "he desperately hunted for a new job"
Similar:
search,
look,
look high and low,
scour around,
seek,
try to find,
cast about,
cast round,
cast around,
rummage (about),
rummage (round),
rummage (around),
root about,
root around,
fish about,
fish around,
forage about,
forage around,
ferret (about),
ferret (around),
rootle about/around,
• (of a device or system) oscillate about a desired speed, position, or state.
• "on weak stereo signals this circuit can hunt over mono and stereo in a very disconcerting manner"
• (in change-ringing) move the place of a bell in a simple progression.
hunt
noun
• an act of hunting wild animals or game.
• "a bear-hunt"
• a search.
• "police launched a hunt for the killer"
Similar:
search,
look,
quest,
seeking,
rummaging,
foraging,
ferreting (about),
ferreting (around),
• an oscillating motion about a desired speed, position, or state.
Origin:
Old English huntian, of Germanic origin. Sense 4 dates from the late 17th century, and is probably based on the idea of the bells pursuing one another; it gave rise to the sense ‘oscillate about a desired speed’ (late 19th century).
