hunt

Meaning

1. To find or search for an animal in the wild with the intention of killing the animal for its meat or for sport.
2. To try to find something; search (for).
3. To drive; to chase; with down, from, away, etc.
4. To use or manage (dogs, horses, etc.) in hunting.
5. To use or traverse in pursuit of game.
6. To move or shift the order of (a bell) in a regular course of changes.
7. To shift up and down in order regularly.
8. 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.

chase

hunting

go hunting

search for

hunt club

take hold of

grab onto

quest after

quest for

seek after

catch fish

hunt after

hunt game

make after

prey on

prey upon

put into order

rout out

wish for

go looking for

access

Hakea

keep abreast with

keep place with

cast around

field sport

Hunt

go for a hunt

manhun

beat about

Frequency

Pronounced as (IPA)

/hʌnt/

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.

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