hunt

hunt is a 4-letter English word with 27 senses as transitive verb, intransitive verb, noun, and verb in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: 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. Face value is 7 in Scrabble and 8 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.

4 letters · Scrabble 7 · Words With Friends 8 · 27 senses

Definitions

1. transitive verb. 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.
2. transitive verb. 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.
3. transitive verb. To drive; to chase; -- with down, from, away, etc.; as, to hunt down a criminal; he was hunted from the parish.
4. transitive verb. To use or manage in the chase, as hounds.
5. transitive verb. To use or traverse in pursuit of game; as, he hunts the woods, or the country.
6. intransitive verb. To follow the chase; to go out in pursuit of game; to course with hounds.
7. intransitive verb. To seek; to pursue; to search; -- with for or after.
8. noun. The act or practice of chasing wild animals; chase; pursuit; search.
9. noun. The game secured in the hunt.
10. noun. A pack of hounds.
11. noun. An association of huntsmen.
12. noun. A district of country hunted over.
13. noun. the pursuit and killing or capture of wild animals regarded as a sport

    Synonyms: hunting

14. noun. the work of finding and killing or capturing animals for food or pelts

    Synonyms: hunting

15. noun. the activity of looking thoroughly in order to find something or someone

    Synonyms: hunting, search

16. noun. an instance of searching for something

    "the hunt for submarines"

17. noun. an association of huntsmen who hunt for sport
18. noun. British writer who defended the Romanticism of Keats and Shelley (1784-1859)
19. noun. United States architect (1827-1895)
20. noun. Englishman and Pre-Raphaelite painter (1827-1910)
21. verb. pursue for food or sport (as of wild animals)

    "Goering often hunted wild boars in Poland"

    "The dogs are running deer"

    Synonyms: run

22. verb. search (an area) for prey

    "The King used to hunt these forests"

23. verb. seek, search for

    "She hunted for her reading glasses but was unable to locate them"

24. verb. oscillate about a desired speed, position, or state to an undesirable extent

    "The oscillator hunts about the correct frequency"

25. verb. pursue or chase relentlessly

    "The hunters traced the deer into the woods"

    "the detectives hounded the suspect until they found him"

    Synonyms: hound, trace

26. verb. yaw back and forth about a flight path

    "the plane's nose yawed"

27. verb. chase away, with as with force

    "They hunted the unwanted immigrants out of the neighborhood"

Synonyms

hunting, search, run, hound, trace

Common word forms

hunts, hunted, hunter, hunting, huntable

Words from these letters

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