Synonyms for manhunt
ˈmænˌhʌntman·hunt

Princeton's WordNet

1. manhuntnoun

   an organized search (by police) for a person (charged with a crime)

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1. List of paraphrases for "manhunt":

   chasing, chase, hunt

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1. Randall Gingrich:

   I just never understood how is it that the United States didn’t raise holy hell until they captured him why wasn’t there a massive manhunt until this was resolved? How could he still be there?

2. Ted Kaczynski:

   Quite frankly, if you’re going to strictly put it in the category of manhunt or wanted person, probably with the exception of Osama Bin Laden … it may still be to this day that the unabomber manhunt was the most expensive one in law enforcement, criminal justice history.

3. State Police Captain Stephen Jones:

   There's not a massive manhunt going on.

4. Jonathan Gilliam:

   You can't sustain this type of a manhunt for very long, it's just too much of a vacuum of all other resources.

5. Chad Hunt:

   We're seeing stuff coming in from the Northwest down to the Southwest to the Northeast and everything in between... and we have to look at every single one, because it's going to be that one small tip that we think might be irrelevant that really kind of breaks the case open, we were several hours behind, it wasn't a typical over-the-wall escape, so our investigation does look a little different than a typical manhunt where somebody jumped the fence.