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