Synonyms for hunt
hʌnthunt

English Synonyms and AntonymsRate these synonyms:0.0 / 0 votes

1. hunt

   A hunt may be either the act of pursuing or the act of seeking, or a combination of the two. A chase or pursuit is after that which is fleeing or departing; a search is for that which is hidden; a hunt may be for that which is either hidden or fleeing; a search is a minute and careful seeking, and is especially applied to a locality; we make a search of or through a house, for an object, in which connection it would be colloquial to say a hunt. Hunt never quite loses its association with field-sports, where it includes both search and chase; the search till the game is hunted out, and the chase till it is hunted down. Figuratively, we speak of literary pursuits, or of the pursuit of knowledge; a search for reasons; the chase of fame or honor; hunt, in figurative use, inclines to the unfavorable sense of inquisition, but with more of dash and aggressiveness; as, a hunt for heresy.

   Synonyms:
   chase, hunting, inquisition, pursuit, search

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1. Hunt, Holman Hunt, William Holman Huntnoun

   Englishman and Pre-Raphaelite painter (1827-1910)

   Synonyms:
   search, hunt club, hunting

2. Hunt, Richard Morris Huntnoun

   United States architect (1827-1895)

   Synonyms:
   search, hunt club, hunting

3. Hunt, Leigh Hunt, James Henry Leigh Huntnoun

   British writer who defended the Romanticism of Keats and Shelley (1784-1859)

   Synonyms:
   search, hunt club, hunting

4. hunt, hunt clubnoun

   an association of huntsmen who hunt for sport

   Synonyms:
   search, hunt club, hunting

5. huntnoun

   an instance of searching for something

   "the hunt for submarines"

   Synonyms:
   search, hunt club, hunting

6. search, hunt, huntingnoun

   the activity of looking thoroughly in order to find something or someone

   Synonyms:
   search, hunt club, lookup, hunting

7. hunt, huntingnoun

   the work of finding and killing or capturing animals for food or pelts

   Synonyms:
   search, hunt club, hunting

8. hunt, huntingverb

   the pursuit and killing or capture of wild animals regarded as a sport

   Synonyms:
   search, hunt club, hunting

9. hunt, run, hunt down, track downverb

   pursue for food or sport (as of wild animals)

   "Goering often hunted wild boars in Poland"; "The dogs are running deer"; "The Duke hunted in these woods"

   Synonyms:
   course, operate, hound, fly the coop, work, scat, run away, move, turn tail, range, run, guide, function, lead, lam, flow, melt down, track down, break away, head for the hills, extend, hunt down, endure, bunk, take to the woods, consort, execute, feed, bleed, carry, scarper, go, unravel, lean, play, die hard, race, pass, run for, black market, persist, incline, draw, hightail it, be given, prevail, campaign, trace, tend, escape, ladder, ply, melt

10. hound, hunt, traceverb

    pursue or chase relentlessly

    "The hunters traced the deer into the woods"; "the detectives hounded the suspect until they found him"

    Synonyms:
    decipher, track down, run, line, describe, trace, delineate, retrace, hunt down, hound, draw, follow

11. huntverb

    chase away, with as with force

    "They hunted the unwanted immigrants out of the neighborhood"

    Synonyms:
    run, hound, track down, hunt down, trace

12. huntverb

    yaw back and forth about a flight path

    "the plane's nose yawed"

    Synonyms:
    run, hound, track down, hunt down, trace

13. huntverb

    oscillate about a desired speed, position, or state to an undesirable extent

    "The oscillator hunts about the correct frequency"

    Synonyms:
    run, hound, track down, hunt down, trace

14. huntverb

    seek, search for

    "She hunted for her reading glasses but was unable to locate them"

    Synonyms:
    run, hound, track down, hunt down, trace

15. huntverb

    search (an area) for prey

    "The King used to hunt these forests"

    Synonyms:
    run, hound, track down, hunt down, trace

Matched Categories

1. • Pre-Raphaelite
   • Activity
   • Airplane
   • Architect
   • Club
   • Drive Out
   • Labor
   • Oscillate
   • Search
   • Seek
   • Writer
   • Yaw

Dictionary of English SynonymesRate these synonyms:0.0 / 0 votes

1. huntverb

   Synonyms:
   chase, pursue

2. huntverb

   Synonyms:
   follow the chase

3. huntverb

   Synonyms:
   search, seek, look

4. huntnoun

   Synonyms:
   chase, pursuit, hunting, field-sport

Synonyms, Antonyms & Associated WordsRate these synonyms:1.0 / 1 vote

1. huntnoun

   Synonyms:
   chase, pursuit, search, hunting

2. huntverb

   Synonyms:
   chase, pursue, follow, search, seek, ransack, rummage, ferret, poach (hunt unlawfully)

PPDB, the paraphrase databaseRate these paraphrases:0.0 / 0 votes

1. List of paraphrases for "hunt":

   hunting, chasse, hunts, fighter, hunted, chase, hunte, harvest, search, sealing, hunter, chasing, manhunt, game

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1. James Jeffrey:

   They read all those books and it is people’s dreams to go over there and do it. Some of these guys have worked their whole lives to do this one hunt.

2. Henry Owens:

   I knew the majority of their lineup was pretty aggressive and kind of took that book into today and rolled with it, every lineup's different, obviously. But I think the majority of those guys are trying to hunt and drive the ball out of the ballpark.

3. Ashleigh Haruda:

   We could see that it had lost its canines and some of its other teeth completely and that the tooth roots had healed over, the loss of these teeth would have made it difficult for the cat to hunt successfully.

4. Rory Stewart:

   I'm not a supporter of Boris and I wouldn't serve in his cabinet, so I'm supporting Jeremy Hunt.

5. David Cline:

   There's a lot of people out there that just love a good treasure hunt, it's kind of exciting that ... it's like one of the only things in all of our society that kind of transcends, you know, political lines and everything. Everyone loves a treasure hunt.