1. Pursue for food or sport (as of wild animals)
   "Goering often hunted wild boars in Poland"; "The Duke hunted in these woods"; "Goering often hunted down wild boars in Poland";
   - run, hunt down, track down
    
2. Seek, search for
   "She hunted for her reading glasses but was unable to locate them"
    
3. Search (an area) for prey
   "The King used to hunt these forests"
    
4. Pursue or chase relentlessly
   "the detectives hunted the suspect until they found him";
   - hound, trace
    
5. Chase or drive away, as with force
   "They hunted the unwanted immigrants out of the neighbourhood"
    
6. Yaw back and forth about a flight path
   "The damaged plane hunted as it tried to maintain course"
    
7. Oscillate about a desired speed, position, or state to an undesirable extent
   "The oscillator hunts about the correct frequency"

1. The pursuit and killing or capture of wild animals regarded as a sport
   "They went on a fox hunt in the countryside";
   - hunting
    
2. The work of finding and killing or capturing animals for food or pelts
   "The annual deer hunt was a major event in the rural community";
   - hunting
    
3. The activity of looking thoroughly in order to find something or someone
   "The detective's hunt for clues lasted throughout the night";
   - search, hunting
    
4. An instance of searching for something
   "the hunt for submarines"
    
5. An association of huntsmen who hunt for sport
   "The local hunt club organized a fox hunt every autumn";
   - hunt club

1. Englishman and Pre-Raphaelite painter (1827-1910)
   - Holman Hunt, William Holman Hunt
    
2. British writer who defended the Romanticism of Keats and Shelley (1784-1859)
   - Leigh Hunt, James Henry Leigh Hunt
    
3. United States architect (1827-1895)
   - Richard Morris Hunt

Derived forms: hunted, Hunts, hunts, hunting

Type of: activity, architect, author, blood sport, capture, catch, chase, chase after, chase down, club, designer, drive out, field sport, force out, gild, give chase, go after, guild, labor [US], labour [Brit, Cdn], lodge, look, look for, order, oscillate, outdoor sport, Pre-Raphaelite, rouse, rout out, search, seek, social club, society, tag, toil, track, trail, vibrate, writer, yaw

Encyclopedia: Hunt, Ohio