Dictionary Entry
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
- 1transitive 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.
- 2transitive 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.
- 3transitive verb
To drive; to chase; -- with down, from, away, etc.; as, to hunt down a criminal; he was hunted from the parish.
- 4transitive verb
To use or manage in the chase, as hounds.
- 5transitive verb
To use or traverse in pursuit of game; as, he hunts the woods, or the country.
- 6intransitive verb
To follow the chase; to go out in pursuit of game; to course with hounds.
- 7intransitive verb
To seek; to pursue; to search; -- with for or after.
- 8noun
The act or practice of chasing wild animals; chase; pursuit; search.
- 9noun
The game secured in the hunt.
- 10noun
A pack of hounds.
- 11noun
An association of huntsmen.
- 12noun
A district of country hunted over.
- 13noun
the pursuit and killing or capture of wild animals regarded as a sport
Synonyms
- 14noun
the work of finding and killing or capturing animals for food or pelts
Synonyms
- 15noun
the activity of looking thoroughly in order to find something or someone
- 16noun
an instance of searching for something
"the hunt for submarines"
- 17noun
an association of huntsmen who hunt for sport
- 18noun
British writer who defended the Romanticism of Keats and Shelley (1784-1859)
- 19noun
United States architect (1827-1895)
- 20noun
Englishman and Pre-Raphaelite painter (1827-1910)
- 21verb
pursue for food or sport (as of wild animals)
"Goering often hunted wild boars in Poland"
"The dogs are running deer"
Synonyms
- 22verb
search (an area) for prey
"The King used to hunt these forests"
- 23verb
seek, search for
"She hunted for her reading glasses but was unable to locate them"
- 24verb
oscillate about a desired speed, position, or state to an undesirable extent
"The oscillator hunts about the correct frequency"
- 25verb
pursue or chase relentlessly
"The hunters traced the deer into the woods"
"the detectives hounded the suspect until they found him"
- 26verb
yaw back and forth about a flight path
"the plane's nose yawed"
- 27verb
chase away, with as with force
"They hunted the unwanted immigrants out of the neighborhood"
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