hunt+down
11hunt\ down — v 1. To pursue and capture; look hard for an animal or person until found and caught. The police hunted down the escaped prisoner. Compare: track down 2. To search for (smth) until one finds it. Professor Jones hunted down the written manuscript… …
12hunt down/up — (in change ringing) move the place of a bell in a simple progression. → hunt …
13hunt down — pursue and capture, pursue and kill, seek and find, track down …
14Hunt — (h[u^]nt), v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Hunted}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Hunting}.] [AS. huntian to hunt; cf. hentan to follow, pursue, Goth. hin?an (in comp.) to seize. [root]36. Cf. {Hent}.] 1. To search for or follow after, as game or wild animals; to chase; …
15hunt — [hunt] vt. [ME hunten < OE huntian, prob. < base of hentan, to seize < ? IE * kend , var. of * kent > Goth (fra)hinthan, to seize: see HAND] 1. to go out to kill or catch (game) for food or sport 2. to search eagerly or carefully for; …
16hunt — ► VERB 1) pursue and kill (a wild animal) for sport or food. 2) (also hunt for or after) try to find by diligent searching. 3) (hunt down) pursue and capture (someone). 4) (hunted) appearing alarmed or harassed as if being hunted …
17hunt — hunt1 [hʌnt] v [: Old English; Origin: huntian] 1.) [I and T] to chase animals and birds in order to kill or catch them ▪ the slopes where I hunted deer as a kid ▪ Wolves tend to hunt in packs (=hunt in groups) . 2.) to look for someone or… …
18hunt — v 1. chase, give chase, run down or after, make after, pursue, course, Brit. chevy, (in India) shikar, follow close or hot on one s heels; hound, dog, hawk, pigstick; stalk, still hunt, track, trail, follow, shadow, haunt, Inf. tail; track down,… …
19hunt — hunt1 [ hʌnt ] verb ** 1. ) intransitive or transitive to kill animals for food or for their skin or other parts, or for sport: Crocodiles were hunted and killed for their teeth. hunt for: We hunted for rabbits in the hills. a ) to catch and eat… …
20hunt — Synonyms and related words: angle for, ask for, beat, beat about for, beat the bushes, beset, burrow, capture, cast about, chase, chase out, check out, chevy, chivy, course, coursing, cynegetics, delve, delve for, dig, dig for, dog, domiciliary… …
