hunt
Noun · VerbOpen English WordNet
Verb (7)hunts, hunted, hunting
- pursue for food or sport (as of wild animals)“Goering often hunted wild boars in Poland”“The dogs are running deer”“The Duke hunted in these woods”Synonyms: runhunt downtrack downMore general capture, catchMore specific scrounge, poach, still-hunt, turtle, foxhunt, falcon, fowl, snipe, course, drive +6 moreSimilar run
- pursue or chase relentlessly“The hunters traced the deer into the woods”“the detectives hounded the suspect until they found him”Synonyms: houndtraceMore general chase, chase afterMore specific ferret
- chase away, with as with force“They hunted the unwanted immigrants out of the neighborhood”More general rout out, drive out
- yaw back and forth about a flight path“the plane's nose yawed”More general yaw
- oscillate about a desired speed, position, or state to an undesirable extent“The oscillator hunts about the correct frequency”More general oscillate, vibrate
- seek, search for“She hunted for her reading glasses but was unable to locate them”More general search, seek
- search (an area) for prey“The King used to hunt these forests”
Noun (8)hunts
- Englishman and Pre-Raphaelite painter (1827-1910)Synonyms: Holman HuntWilliam Holman HuntInstance of Pre-Raphaelite
- United States architect (1827-1895)Synonyms: Richard Morris HuntInstance of architect, designer
- British writer who defended the Romanticism of Keats and Shelley (1784-1859)Synonyms: Leigh HuntJames Henry Leigh HuntInstance of writer, author
- an association of huntsmen who hunt for sportSynonyms: hunt clubType of club, social club
- an instance of searching for something“the hunt for submarines”Type of search
- the activity of looking thoroughly in order to find something or someoneSynonyms: searchhuntingType of activityKinds exploration, scouring, foraging, shakedown, manhunt, ransacking, quest, looking, frisk
- the work of finding and killing or capturing animals for food or peltsSynonyms: hunting
- the pursuit and killing or capture of wild animals regarded as a sportSynonyms: hunting
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Translations
Verb to chase down prey
- Spanish
- cazar
- French
- chasser
- German
- jagen
- Italian
- cacciare
- Portuguese
- caçar
- Russian
- охо́титься oxótitʹsja
- Arabic
- اِصْطَادَ iṣṭāda
- Chinese
- 猎取 lièqǔ
- Japanese
- 狩る karu
- Dutch
- jagen
27 more languages
- Polish
- polować
- Swedish
- jaga
- Korean
- 사냥하다 sanyanghada
- Indonesian
- buru
- Vietnamese
- săn bắn
- Hungarian
- vadászik
- Portuguese (PT)
- caçar
- Chinese (Trad.)
- 打獵 dǎliè
- Albanian
- gjuaj
- Catalan
- caçar
- Czech
- lovit
- Danish
- jage
- Esperanto
- ĉasi
- Estonian
- jahtima
- Finnish
- metsästää
- Hebrew
- צָד tzad
- Icelandic
- veiða
- Latvian
- medīt
- Lithuanian
- medžioti
- Norwegian
- jakte
- Romanian
- vâna
- Scottish Gaelic
- sealg
- Serbo-Croatian
- loviti
- Slovak
- loviť
- Slovenian
- loviti
- Walloon
- tchessî
- Yiddish
- יאַגן yogn
Noun the act of hunting, shooting
- Spanish
- caza
- French
- chasse
- German
- Jagd
- Italian
- caccia
- Portuguese
- caça
- Turkish
- av
- Russian
- охо́та oxóta
- Arabic
- صَيْد ṣayd
- Chinese
- 狩猎 shòuliè
- Japanese
- 狩猟 shuryō
21 more languages
The main translation for each meaning, from the langtolang.com multilingual dictionary. Each word links to its full entry there.
Webster's Dictionary (1913)
Origin: AS. huntian to hunt; cf. hentan to follow, pursue, Goth. hin…an (in comp.) to seize. √36. Cf. Hent.
1. To search for or follow after, as game or wild animals; to chase; to pursue for the purpose of catching or killing; to follow with dogs or guns for sport or exercise; as, to hunt a deer.
Like a dog, he hunts in dreams.— Alfred Tennyson
2. To search diligently after; to seek; to pursue; to follow; — often with out or up; as, to hunt up the facts; to hunt out evidence.
Evil shall hunt the violent man to overthrow him.— Ps. cxl. 11.
3. To drive; to chase; — with down, from, away, etc.; as, to hunt down a criminal; he was hunted from the parish.
4. To use or manage in the chase, as hounds.
He hunts a pack of dogs.— Joseph Addison
5. To use or traverse in pursuit of game; as, he hunts the woods, or the country.
6. Change Ringing To move or shift the order of (a bell) in a regular course of changes.
1. To follow the chase; to go out in pursuit of game; to course with hounds.
Esau went to the field to hunt for venison.— Gen. xxvii. 5.
2. To seek; to pursue; to search; — with for or after.
He after honor hunts, I after love.— William Shakespeare
3. Machinery To be in a state of instability of movement or forced oscillation, as a governor which has a large movement of the balls for small change of load, an arc-lamp clutch mechanism which moves rapidly up and down with variations of current, or the like; also, to seesaw, as a pair of alternators working in parallel.
4. Change Ringing To shift up and down in order regularly.
To hunt counter, to trace the scent backward in hunting, as a hound to go back on one's steps. obsolete William Shakespeare
1. The act or practice of chasing wild animals; chase; pursuit; search.
The hunt is up; the morn is bright and gray.— William Shakespeare
2. The game secured in the hunt. obsolete William Shakespeare
3. A pack of hounds. obsolete
4. An association of huntsmen.
5. A district of country hunted over.
Every landowner within the hunt.— London Field, The
Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913), from GCIDE 0.54 · with additions: 1913 supplement