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

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1. • Pre-Raphaelite
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   • Architect
   • Club
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   • Labor
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   • 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. Cristo Fernandez:

   Everything on set with [ executive producers ] Jason [ Sudekis ], Brendan [ Hunt ], Joe [ Kelly ], and Bill [ Lawrence ], I'm just learning so much from them -- how they managed and how they preserved that good vibes environment, again, it was such a really nice experience.

2. Xolani Mhlongo:

   The cheetahs immediately went south, to the part of Babanango that’s closest to the reserve where they grew up. So maybe they were trying to go home. But it’s also the grassy plateaus where it’s easiest for them to hunt with their speed.

3. Brad Adams:

   This is a marked escalation of the junta witch-hunt against dissidents, now they are targeting a dissident's mother as they try to gag his outspoken criticism. This is a new low even for a junta which has made abuses of human rights a daily occurrence.

4. Bill Fennelly:

   They hunt the 3 ball a little bit more than in the past, you’re still talented. You’ve still got big guys around the basket. But I think their willingness to shoot the 3 a little quicker changes how you have to prepare for them, and especially if they’re making them like they were today.

5. Clara Monaco:

   It is probable that they swam (into the Mediterranean) and went beyond Gibraltar to hunt, but we do not know why they remained.