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hunt
has definitions from the fields of sport,work,psychology,writing,architecture,fine art
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[ verb ] pursue for food or sport (as of wild animals)
Synonyms Examples "Goering often hunted wild boars in Poland" "The dogs are running deer" "The Duke hunted in these woods" Used in print (Tristram P. Coffin, "Folklore in the American Twentieth...)The collector enjoys the contact with rural life ; he hunts folklore for the very `` field and stream '' reasons that many persons hunt game ; and only rarely is he acutely concerned with the meaning of what he has located . (W. H. Gass, "The Pedersen Kid," in The...)She 'd found one and she had n't said a word while Big_Hans and I had hunted and hunted as we always did all winter , every winter since the spring that Hans had come and I had looked in the privy and found the first one . She 'd found one and she had n't said a word while Big_Hans and I had hunted and hunted as we always did all winter , every winter since the spring that Hans had come and I had looked in the privy and found the first one . |
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[ verb ] pursue or chase relentlessly
Examples "The hunters traced the deer into the woods" "the detectives hounded the suspect until they found the him" Used in print (Tristram P. Coffin, "Folklore in the American Twentieth...)The collector enjoys the contact with rural life ; he hunts folklore for the very `` field and stream '' reasons that many persons hunt game ; and only rarely is he acutely concerned with the meaning of what he has located . |
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[ noun ] Last name, frequency rank in the U.S. is 148
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[ noun ] (work) the work of finding and killing or capturing animals for food or pelts
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[ noun ] (psychology) an instance of searching for something
Examples "the hunt for submarines" Related terms |
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[ noun ] (writing) British writer who defended the romanticism of Keats and Shelley (1784-1859)
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[ noun ] (architecture) United States architect (1827-1895)
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[ noun ] (fine art) English Pre-Raphaelite painter (1827-1910)
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[ verb ] chase away, with as with force
Examples "They hunted the unwanted immigrants out of the neighborhood" Related terms |
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[ verb ] oscillate about a desired speed, position, or state to an undesirable extent
Examples "The oscillator hunts about the correct frequency" Related terms |
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[ noun ] (sport) the pursuit and killing or capture of wild animals regarded as a sport
Synonyms Related terms outdoor_sport bloodsport blood_sport ducking pigsticking beagling battue deer_hunt foxhunt coursing trap bag gin batfowl hound |
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