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hunt   (TTS Sound)

The noun hunt has 8 senses

• Hunt, Holman Hunt, William Holman Hunt -- (Englishman and Pre-Raphaelite painter (1827-1910))


• Hunt, Richard Morris Hunt -- (United States architect (1827-1895))


• Hunt, Leigh Hunt, James Henry Leigh Hunt -- (British writer who defended the Romanticism of Keats and Shelley (1784-1859))


• hunt, hunt club -- (an association of huntsmen who hunt for sport)


• hunt -- (an instance of searching for something; "the hunt for submarines")


• search, hunt, hunting -- (the activity of looking thoroughly in order to find something or someone)


• hunt, hunting -- (the work of finding and killing or capturing animals for food or pelts)


• hunt, hunting -- (the pursuit and killing or capture of wild animals regarded as a sport)

The verb hunt has 7 senses

• hunt, run, hunt down, track down -- (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")


• hound, hunt, trace -- (pursue or chase relentlessly; "The hunters traced the deer into the woods"; "the detectives hounded the suspect until they found him")


• hunt -- (chase away, with as with force; "They hunted the unwanted immigrants out of the neighborhood")


• hunt -- (yaw back and forth about a flight path; "the plane's nose yawed")


• hunt -- (oscillate about a desired speed, position, or state to an undesirable extent; "The oscillator hunts about the correct frequency")


• hunt -- (seek, search for; "She hunted for her reading glasses but was unable to locate them")


• hunt -- (search (an area) for prey; "The King used to hunt these forests")