hunt

Plural: hunts

Noun

Englishman and Pre-Raphaelite painter (1827-1910)
United States architect (1827-1895)
British writer who defended the Romanticism of Keats and Shelley (1784-1859)
an association of huntsmen who hunt for sport
an instance of searching for something
- "the hunt for submarines"
the activity of looking thoroughly in order to find something or someone
the work of finding and killing or capturing animals for food or pelts
the pursuit and killing or capture of wild animals regarded as a sport
The act of hunting.
A hunting expedition.
An organization devoted to hunting, or the people belonging to it.
A pack of hunting dogs.

Verb

Verb Forms: hunted, hunting, hunts

To pursue and kill or capture for food or sport.
pursue for food or sport (as of wild animals)
- "Goering often hunted wild boars in Poland"
- "The Duke hunted in these woods"
pursue or chase relentlessly
- "The hunters traced the deer into the woods"
chase away, with as with force
- "They hunted the unwanted immigrants out of the neighborhood"
yaw back and forth about a flight path
oscillate about a desired speed, position, or state to an undesirable extent
- "The oscillator hunts about the correct frequency"
seek, search for
- "She hunted for her reading glasses but was unable to locate them"
search (an area) for prey
- "The King used to hunt these forests"
To find or search for an animal in the wild with the intention of killing the animal for its meat or for sport.
To try to find something; search (for).
To drive; to chase; with down, from, away, etc.
To use or manage (dogs, horses, etc.) in hunting.
To use or traverse in pursuit of game.
To move or shift the order of (a bell) in a regular course of changes.
To shift up and down in order regularly.
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, etc.; also, to seesaw, as a pair of alternators working in parallel.

Examples

Did you hunt that pony last week?
He hunts the woods, or the country.
He was hunted from the parish.
Her uncle will go out and hunt for deer, now that it is open season.
She would hunt for opportunities to place a high-value letter on a double word score in Scrabble.
State Wildlife Management areas often offer licensed hunters the opportunity to hunt on public lands.
The little girl was hunting for shells on the beach.
The police are hunting for evidence.
to hunt down a criminal

Origin / Etymology

From Middle English hunten, from Old English huntian (“to hunt”), from Proto-West Germanic *huntōn (“to hunt, capture”), possibly from Proto-Indo-European *ḱent- (“to catch, seize”). Related to Old High German hunda (“booty”), Gothic 𐌷𐌿𐌽𐌸𐍃 (hunþs, “body of captives”), Old English hūþ (“plunder, booty, prey”), Old English hentan (“to catch, seize”). More at hent, hint.
In some areas read as a collective form of hound by folk etymology.

Synonyms

Holman Hunt, hound, hunt club, hunt down, hunting, James Henry Leigh Hunt, Leigh Hunt, Richard Morris Hunt, run, search, trace, track down, William Holman Hunt

Scrabble Score: 7

hunt: valid Scrabble (US) TWL Word
hunt: valid Scrabble Word in Merriam-Webster MW Dictionary
hunt: valid Scrabble Word in International Collins CSW Dictionary

Words With Friends Score: 8

hunt: valid Words With Friends Word