transcription, транскрипция: [ hʌnt ]
( hunts, hunting, hunted)
Frequency: The word is one of the 3000 most common words in English.
1.
If you hunt for something or someone, you try to find them by searching carefully or thoroughly.
A forensic team was hunting for clues...
= search
VERB : V for n
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Hunt is also a noun.
The couple had helped in the hunt for the toddlers.
= search
N-COUNT
2.
If you hunt a criminal or an enemy, you search for them in order to catch or harm them.
Detectives have been hunting him for seven months...
VERB : V n , also V for n
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Hunt is also a noun.
Despite a nationwide hunt for the kidnap gang, not a trace of them was found.
N-COUNT : usu sing , oft N for n
3.
When people or animals hunt , they chase and kill wild animals for food or as a sport.
As a child I learned to hunt and fish...
He got up at four and set out on foot to hunt black grouse.
VERB : V , V n , also V for n
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Hunt is also a noun.
He set off for a nineteen-day moose hunt in Nova Scotia.
N-COUNT : oft n N
4.
In Britain, when people hunt , they ride horses over fields with dogs called hounds and try to catch and kill foxes, as a sport.
She liked to hunt as often as she could.
VERB : V , also V n
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Hunt is also a noun.
The hunt was held on land owned by the Duke of Marlborough.
N-COUNT
5.
In Britain, a hunt is a group of people who meet regularly to hunt foxes.
N-COUNT
6.
If a team or competitor is in the hunt for something, they still have a chance of winning it.
We’re still in the hunt for the League title and we want to go all the way in the Cup.
PHRASE : usu v-link PHR for
7.
see also hunting , witch-hunt